‘Sabbath’s Theater’ Review: John Turturro’s Flailing, Philandering Odyssey

New York

Flaccid is perhaps the most damning word one could conjure to describe the New Group adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel “Sabbath’s Theater.” Its protagonist—the disgraced puppeteer Mickey Sabbath, played by John Turturro—is among the most lunatically lecherous characters in fiction.