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...Divorced father and kids move in with gay college friend (with JOHN GOODMAN...
Rebecca Gilman's new play, Boy Gets Girl, having its premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, eases us so skillfully into an utterly recognizable world--Theresa is a single magazine editor whose (largely arid) love life is the object of curiosity to friends and co-workers alike--that its unraveling grabs us with special power. Tony, the good-looking but rather clueless date, won't stop calling. He shows up unannounced in her office. There are signs he's watching her apartment. Soon Theresa has a stalker on her hands. And we have one of the finest, most disturbing American...
Gilman, 35, an Alabama native who now lives in Chicago, has been quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York...
...passengers' gear being stowed and beds being made up. At dawn, after 10 stops, most of which we had slept through, we woke to peer down at the muddy train yard at Memphis, Tenn., where an engine problem kept us longer than scheduled. The lyrics of the Steve Goodman song ran through my head: "Changin' trains in Memphis, Tennessee, halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down...
...were on a faster schedule than the stop-and-go City of New Orleans Goodman described. (He wrote the song in 1970, just before Amtrak took over the line with plans to rename that route the Panama Limited after the old Pullman train. Goodman's popular lament for the train with the "disappearin'-railroad blues" persuaded Amtrak to rechristen it the City of New Orleans.) And our sleek new equipment was a far cry from the tattered luxury of its aging 1940s cars...