Project #1 Goodman Theatre

The Goodman Theatre:

1.Radio Golf

by:August Wilson

"crackle of a bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/theater/reviews/09radio.html

"final work of his great 10-drama cycle about African-Americans in the 20th century"

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/04/30/theater/reviews/30golf.html

2.Rabbit Hole

by:David Lindsay-Abaire

"once called kitchen-sink dramas."

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/theater/reviews/03rabb.html

"a bittersweet drama about finding hope in the lowest moments of our lives "
http://www.curtainup.com/rabbithole.html

3.Desire Under the Elms

by:Eugene O'Neil

"is enthralling. It builds, and one is swept up with it. What could come out as ludicrous melodrama has a larger-than-life passion"

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D00E5DC143BF931A25756C0A963948260

"unabashedly sexual and overtly expressionistic revival of Eugene O'Neill's embryonic American tragedy from 1924."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0127-desire-under-elms-ovn_qjan27,0,7371328.story

4.Frank's Home

by:Richard Nelson

"bafflingly banal drama"

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117932262.html?categoryid=33&cs=1

"dreary drama"

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/theater/reviews/31fran.html

5.Talking Pictures

by:Horton Foote

"richly layered comedy with a heart as big as the Lone Star State itself"http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/reviews/02-2008/talking-pictures_12699.html

"gently loopy comedy written in the mid-1980's"

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D05E5DF103AF934A1575AC0A962958260

6.In the Continuum

by:Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter

"a kaleidoscopic portrait of two black women... whose lives are suddenly upended by H.I.V. diagnoses."

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/theater/reviews/03cont.html

the play charges the stage with rare political immediacy. But the triumph of Continuum is that this achievement is a by-product of the play's dramatic intimacy"http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/12/03/224916.php



7.Mirror of the Invisible World

by:Mary Zimmerman

"leisurely storytelling extravaganza"

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/theaterreviews/2007/070706/

"stunning, visually powerful fable"

http://www.chicagocritic.com/html/mirror_of_the_invisible_world.html

8.Massacre (Sing to your Children)

by:Jose Rivera

"disturbing new drama"

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-162470691.html

"overwritten and underdeveloped new morality play"

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/04-2007/massacre-sing-for-your-children_10472.html

9.Rock n' Roll

by:Tom Stoppard

"extraordinary, epic drama of politics, persecution and protest"

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/stoppt/rockroll.htm

"great political play "

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00003914.html

10.Vigils

by:Noah Haidle

" nicely balanced comedy that wraps up tightly"

http://www.curtainup.com/vigilsdc.html

"fantasy play"

http://moderntheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vigils_to_premiere_at_goodman

Northwestern University Theatre

1.Tartuffe

by:Moliere

"spirited comic fable"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9807E2D7113EF933A25752C0A9659C8B63

"is a swirl of comic escapades around the titular character"http://tech.mit.edu/V120/N23/Tartuffe.23a.html

2.Ghetto

by:Joshua Sobol

"a Holocaust Drama With Music"

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFDB1F3AF932A35756C0A96F948260

"Part cabaret, part musical, chillingly dramatic with a Brechtian theatricality"

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=5955&utm_source=inform&utm_medium=lobox&utm_campaign=InformBox

3. How Can You Run with a Shell on Your Back?

by:Michael Mahler and Alan Shmucker

"The exuberant and zestful musical reveals the simple and timeless fables through tunefully fun musical allegories."

http://www.chicagocritic.com/html/how_can_you_run_with_a_shell_o.html

" An Aesop's Fables Musical "

http://www.theatermania.com/chicago/shows/how-can-you-run-with-a-shell-on-your-back-an-aesops-fables-musical_134154/

4.The Illusion

by:Tony Kushner

"eminently playable, witty adaptation"

http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/Kushner.htm

"sublime marriage of archetypal farce and contemporary irony."
http://www.rorschachtheatre.com/default.aspx?webpage=illusion

5.Indians

by:Arthur Kopit

"experimental, absurdist piece that eschews conventional plotting and characterization."

http://www.enotes.com/indians

"nineteenth century groundbreaking drama"

http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/kopit.html

6.Marisol

by:Jose Rivera

"thought-provoking, dramatic commentary"

http://www.siue.edu/ALESTLE/library/SPRING2001/apr19/marisol.html

"potent blend of naturalism and surrealism—often called magic realism"
http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2668:review-marisol-by-josivera&catid=28:entertainment-reviews&Itemid=45

7.Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

by:John Patrick Shanley

"factitious fairy tale."

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C05E6D9123BF93BA35755C0A962948260

"off-kilter love story"

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/11_10_04.html

8.The Sins of Sor Juana

by:Karen Zacarias

"drama about the life and work of 17th Century Mexican scholar, nun, poet and writer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz."

http://chicago.metromix.com/theater/theater_event/the-sins-of-sor-chicago/807494/content

"historic fantasy of self-determination and self-expression."

http://www.goldstar.com/events/evanston-il/the-sins-of-sor-juana.html

9.Spunk

by:George C. Wolfe

"anthology of Zora Neale Hurston folk tales narrated and acted out by the characters and the Guitar Man and Blues Speak Woman who transform the tales into a mini-musical."

http://www.curtainup.com/spunk.html

"three short stories have been adapted for the stage and folded into a bluesy musical framework"

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CEFDF1230F93AA25757C0A966958260

10.Women of Lockerbie

by: Deborah Brevoort

"elegy of unrelieved grief. There's anger, but no humor.."http://www.curtainup.com/womenoflockerbie.html

"stunning display of raw emotion, a powerhouse drama"http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117932920.html?categoryid=33&cs=1