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"   If you aren&amp;#039;t somewhat taken aback by the work of obscenely hilarious playwright Martin McDonagh, then you either have a defunct moral compass or McDonagh has not done his job. Based on the gasps and guffaws from the audience during his latest work on Broadway, A Behanding in Spokane, he has done his fans proud. The story follows Carmichael (played with perfectly unsettling creepiness by Christopher Walken), a man on an enduring search for his left hand, which leads him into a transaction gone awry with small-time dope dealers, Marilyn and Toby (Zoe Kazan and Anthony Mackie), in a dungy hotel run by Mervyn (Sam Rockwell). The entire casting is dead-on, but if it weren&amp;#039;t for Walken&amp;#039;s star power, Rockwell would steal the show as the deeply affected hotel clerk. As an aside, it&amp;#039;s worth noting that McDonagh teamed up with blood-brother-in-comedy, director John Crowley for Behanding, his first play set stateside. But an Irish name and dark humor aren&amp;#039;t the only things these two have in common\u2014both chose kinsman and actor Colin Farrell to star in their respective films, Crowley&amp;#039;s Intermission (2003), and McDonagh&amp;#039;s In Bruges (2008). He gives such incredible performances in both that it will make you forgive him for Miami Vice. To buy tickets, go to behandinginspokane.com or visit: Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street New York, New York 10036 212-239-6200 \u2014Maura Lynch, Associate Beauty and Fitness Editor "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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