ERS’s Ulysses Is a Little Stately, a Little Plump

We’re drowning in Gatsby adaptations, but it’s hard to match the splendor of Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz. Returning for an encore at the Public Theater this fall, the company’s six-hour-long rendering of every word of Fitzgerald’s book was its first adaptation of a novel, a theatrical mode now almost synonymous with their name. It’s also a marvel, an exponential curve of enchantment that coalesces patiently, even anti-dramatically, until suddenly...