From Rinde Eckert, the man who brought us the stunning And God Created Great Whales in 2001, comes Horizon, now at New York Theatre Workshop. This play enraptures with its combination of fierce intellectual rigor and sensational stagecraft. Indeed, Horizon is so smart, so original, and so rich in its flow of ideas that it can easily overwhelm anyone who might wander into the theater thinking that a work with only three actors on a seemingly simple set (designed by Alexander V. Nichols) is just a little piece of theater.

The intermissionless 90-minute work takes place between the times the sun falls below the horizon at night and then rises again in the morning. During this long night, Reinh[...]