What do you call a revelation that’s already been proven?Īs Li’l Bit, Parker plays one half of an uncomfortable familial relationship, with David Morse (repeating his role from the original production) playing the uncle-by-marriage who groomed and manipulated her throughout her adolescence in the rural Maryland of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. She’s now returned to one of her best-regarded roles in the Broadway premiere of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer winner, How I Learned to Drive, a quarter-century after starring in its world debut downtown. Whether biding time with an iced coffee straw in her mouth or drug-dazed in a snowy reverie, the woman has built a career out of the cloudy moments when we realize we’ve let ourselves get too far ahead of our own sensitive capacities.
A true star, her characters are indelibly individual but all unmistakably her. No one plays emotional paralysis like Mary-Louise Parker, one of our most fascinating actors working today.
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