The Goldman Project

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Maybe it's the 90-minute running time of Staci Swedeen's The Goldman Project, now at the Abingdon Theatre, perhaps it's the piece's episodic nature, or maybe it's even its setting -- a comfy living room filled with old, but lovingly cared for furniture (courtesy of scenic designer Ken Larson) -- but whatever the case, it's impossible to banish one's sense that this often compellingly performed play feels strangely like a by-the-numbers made-for-television movie about the legacy of the Holocaust that's been transported to the stage.

We're in Inwood in 1994 in the living room of 71-year-old Naomi Goldman (Anita Keal), who endured two years as a prisoner in Auschwitz and has rarely shared much[...]