Hilton Als: “The Heiress” review.
In a way, the ideal cast for “The Heiress,” the 1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz (now in revival at the Walter Kerr), would have been Henry Fonda and his daughter, Jane. As the stiff-necked, unforgiving Dr. Austin Sloper, who practices medicine in mid-nineteenth-century . . . (Subscription required.)