‘The Fear of 13’ Broadway Review: Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson’s Dynamic Performances Rein in a Tonally Bumpy Play

Bogdan Hofbauer

At age 21, Nick Yarris was stopped during a routine traffic stop, arrested and sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a young wife and mother. Though Yarris did not commit this crime, he would spend the next 22 years of his life in confinement awaiting an execution date. Based on the documentary by David Sington, playwright Lindsey Ferrentino’s “ The Fear of 13 ” is a deeply moving play about Yarris’ experience on death row, the woman who became his lifeline and his eventual exoneration