Adam Driver has returned to Broadway in Michael Mayer's revival of Lanford Wilson's classic Burn This. Also starring Keri Russell, who is making her Broadway debut, what did the critics think of this searing production?

Adam Driver, star of Star Wars, was well received by the critics with The Stage calling him "Sublime". They continued with "Driver makes it come alive." The New York Times mirrored the sentiment saying "'Burn This,' directed by Michael Mayer and co-starring Keri Russell, he [Adam Driver] is finally allowed to unfurl onstage the distinctive energy and insight that have characterized his subsequent performances in film".

Vulture was also full of praise for the production saying "Micahel Mayer's revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 play Burn This is pretty dang good - mostly because, playing the human furnace at its center, Adam Driver is straight-up great."

The Hollywood Reporter said "In a performance of astonishing physicality...Driver maintains that dangerous energy...It's credit then to the luminous Russell and the two supporting actors that nobody gets swallowed up in Pale's vortex."

What is Burn This about?

Written during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Burn This examines the pain of mourning and how a terrible tragedy can re-shape the lives of all those around it. Robbie and Dom, a young gay couple, have been killed in a boating accident, and following the funeral, a collection of friends and family members gather at Robbie's loft. Among them are Robbie's former roommate Anna, a sensitive soul lumbered with a rather placid boyfriend, and Robbie's drug-addicted brother Pale, a go-getting restaurateur who was conflicted over Robbie's sexuality.

With an undeniable sexual attraction pulsing between them, and a well of grief in both of their hearts that they can't express, Anna and Pale are drawn together, but can the romance move beyond mutual consolation into something more meaningful?

Burn This is now playing at the Hudson Theatre through to July 14.