All Stories
Oct 26, 2006
Sinner Loses Steam In Second Act
Never The Sinner, now being staged by Actors Theatre of Washington, begins as a fascinating charcter study of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two lovers who decided to kill a man just because they could. The act was one of the first to claim “Crime of the Century” status, and watching the pair’s relationship develop and their depravity unfold makes for some interesting theater. In the first act, anyway. Then the play becomes a…