Under the direction of Alex Timbers, "Here Lies Love" slickly employs live video projections of some scenes to simulate black-and-white TV news broadcasts, an effective aesthetic device that seems to layer thecharacters' personal context with larger, historical implications.
Though theaesthetic is rough-and-ready, Hawley is a sincere and sensitive storyteller who brings thecharacters to life with subtle, oblique touches that show who they are without saying too much about them.