Theater Review: ‘Wonderful Town’

Theater Review: ‘Wonderful Town’
(L–R) Wreck (Jordan Brown ), Helen (Kristin Villanueva ), Ruth (Bri Sudia ) and Eileen (Lauren Molina) in “Wonderful Town,” directed by Manilow Resident Director Mary Zimmerman. Liz Lauren
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CHICAGO—Hope and naivety arrive in New York City in the early ‘50s.  

How refreshing to be reminded of what New York’s Greenwich Village represented to aspiring artists for a good chunk of the 20th century: excitement, freedom from small minds in small towns, the possibility of becoming someone different, and for the young, the possibility of just becoming.  Director Mary Zimmerman sums up that image with her delightful “Wonderful Town.”

This work has sat on the shelves too long.
Sharon Kilarski
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Sharon writes theater reviews, opinion pieces on our culture, and the classics series. Classics: Looking Forward Looking Backward: Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us. To see the full series, see ept.ms/LookingAtClassics.
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