Jon Bernthal, Danny Johnson, and Jessica Hecht in Dog Day Afternoon, at the August Wilson. Photo: Matthew Murphy It’s probably best to walk into the new Broadway production of Dog Day Afternoon without clutching the 1975 movie too tightly in your fists. As a piece of filmmaking, Sidney Lumet’s affectingly tender true-crime classic is everything it wants to be: a wry, tragicomic character study, a sweaty slice of New York life during the Nixon years, an astute yet subtle political commentary.