Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes'

NEW YORK (AP) — Greed disguised as capitalism never goes out of style.

Lillian Hellman's classic play, "The Little Foxes," a dark tale about three avaricious siblings struggling for control over their dwindling family fortune, is still perfectly relevant, more than a century after the horrible Hubbards enriched themselves by exploiting their neighbors and workers in their Southern town.

Better still, unconventional Belgian director Ivo Van Hove has shaken up this story of familial backstabbing and greed, powerfully deconstructing it into 21st century relevance, in a stylish, compelling new production at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop.

Van Hove focuses with …