• Wrecks
• By Neil LaBute
• Directed by Ed Herendeen
• Produced by the Contemporary American Theater Festival
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Edward Carr (Kurt Zische) is a Chicago businessman who has lost his wife. Wrecks is Carr’s preparation for the eulogy he will utter for his beloved Mary Jo, who rests in the featureless wooden casket behind him. [Read more...]

• Pig Farm
• By Greg Kotis
• Directed by Ed Herendeen
• Produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

 Ultimately, I guess, this is a comedy. I can tell from the death scene. Pig Farm, though, looks for all the world like a modern Steinbeck story. [Read more...]