Simon McBurney, the avant-garde theater director, is the only director I’ve ever seen to take a bow not only after his own shows, but before. It wasn’t always so in the earlier days of Complicité, his London-based troupe with the French name. But the more successful Mr. McBurney has become, the more his vanity has gotten out ...

It's not about Katie Holmes. Or even John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest or Patrick Wilson, for that matter. The real star of Broadway's chilly, high-concept revival of "All My Sons" is Simon McBurney. He won't for a minute let you forget he is the director of ...