Writers' Theatre: "Yellow Moon"

Scottish playwright David Grieg’s “Yellow Moon” is about many things, but more than anything else, it’s about the way we tell stories. The characters don’t have all that much dialogue—not the usual sort, anyway. Instead of talking to each other in conversations, they spend more time narrating and explaining and talking about each other. And […]

“Do the Hustle” Examines the Emotional Life of Con Artists

This nerve-jangling, otherworldly world premiere travels deep into the emotional desperation of people who exist on society’s fringes.   Illinois playwright Brett Neveu gets into the rhythmic thinking of those who survive by conning others. Aged street hustler Eddie Sisson (played with emotional vibrancy by esteemed Steppenwolf Theatre veteran Francis Guinan) has one last shot […]