American Theatre, July 1st, 2004
NO ONE WHINES ABOUT THE DISADVAN-tages of rural life in Winesburg, Ohio. Yet this new musical, drawn from Sherwood Anderson's 1919 novel and running at Chicago's About Face Theatre through July 18, unfurls a cavalcade of lost souls who fritter away their futures through fear and self-deception.
Chief among them is George Willard, a 17-year-old aspiring writer who abandons his hometown for fairer fortunes elsewhere. His is a coming-of-age tale, surely, but with a fragmented twist: Both the novel and the musical delineate George's maturation through a series of interweaving, character-driven ...
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