Mr. Walken is, of course, famously good at playing crazies, and the only thing wrong with this performance is that he has a fair amount of trouble projecting his lines (it’s been nearly a decade since he last appeared in a play, and I suspect that his technique is rusty). Ms. Kazan, not surprisingly, is perfect—I think she’s the best stage actress of her generation—and Messrs. Mackie and Rockwell are pretty damned close to it. John Crowley’s direction is so smart and sharp that I’d like to see the show again solely to marvel at the miraculously varied ways in which his four actors react to one another’s lines. Scott Pask, who designed the set, has conjured up an inner-city hotel room so dingy that you’ll wonder why its occupants don’t save themselves time by jumping out the window as soon as they unlock the door. If you saw the Atlantic Theater Company’s productions of “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” or “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” you already know that Mr. McDonagh is one of the half-dozen finest playwrights in the English-speaking world. If not, take a tip from me and buy a ticket to “A Behanding in Spokane” today. They’re going to be scarce. – from WSJ