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'Exit the King' with Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon

If an evening-long death scene isn't your idea of exhilarating theater, you haven't been to "Exit the King." This inspired revival of Eugene Ionesco's seldom-seen 1962 absurdist tragicomedy has been conceived as the unlikely love child of a fractured fairy tale and "King Lear."

At the center, but hardly alone there, is Geoffrey Rush in his outrageously foolish, profoundly moving Broadway...

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