'Love Song' a refreshing spring breeze.

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: April 10, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Chris Jones

Apr. 10--Most decision-makers at the big Chicago theaters are formerly wild and edgy creatures who now assume the roles of liberal, comfortable, institutional professionals. But they don't like to think of themselves -- who does? -- as having lost the bite that got them their jobs in the first place. Thus the Chicago theater is in the midst of a prolonged and intermittently self-loathing period of skewering the mores and hypocrisies of the loft-dwelling, left-leaning, booze-swilling urban elite. From Rebecca Gilman to Bruce Norris to Richard Greenberg, ...

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