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“Someone said in one of the reviews that [the play] was a combination of Stephen King and the Brothers Grimm meets Quentin Tarantino.” — Jeff Goldblum

Like a creepy ghost story with startling twists and turns, Broadway’s “The Pillowman” is hard to explain without spoiling it. But Jeff Goldblum takes a stab.

“It’s so compelling and smart and moment-to-moment and surprising and unexpected and touching and funny and scary and ambiguous and mysterious and rich and worth thinking about,” says the actor, just minutes after stepping off the stage of Broadway’s Booth Theatre from a recent Wednesday matinee preview performance.

Goldblum, speaking by phone, tends to talk in run-on sentences when describing the play. It’s a symptom of his genuine excitement not only to be in it, but to be back on Broadway. It’s where he got his start, long before movies like “The Big Chill,” “The Fly” and “Jurassic Park” made him famous.

“The Pillowman,” which opens tonight, centers on a writer in a totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome events in his eerie short fiction. Billy Crudup plays the writer, whose works mirror real-life child murders occurring in his town. The similarities prompt authorities (Goldblum and Zeljko Ivanek) to detain the writer and his mentally challenged brother (Michael Stuhlbarg) and grill them for information about their possible involvement in the crimes.

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