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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Theater Review

6:00 PM PDT 3/31/2011 by David Rooney

Rajiv Joseph's play, directed by "The Laramie Project's" Moises Kaufman, takes place during the early days of the Iraq War.

NEW YORK  -- Health issues forced Robin Williams to cancel a planned 2009 Broadway engagement of his standup tour, Weapons of Self Destruction. So it seems oddly fitting he should arrive instead in a fascinating role that combines profane comedy, war and existentialism. Think of him as Lenny Bruce meets Friedrich Nietzsche in the body of a man-eating predator.

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