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Boy Gets Girl
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 3, 2000
Closed Apr 8, 2000

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

The Goodman Theatre continues their 1999-2000 Mainstage Series with the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's BOY GETS GIRL. The play begins with a blind date. Theresa, an accomplished reporter, is set up with Tony by a mutual acquaintance. They meet for a beer, and things seem to be going okay, or so she thinks. Then the phone calls started. And the flowers. And the unannounced visits. And the creeping realization that Tony just wouldn't take "no" for an answer. This production is the study of one terrifying incident that takes an unflinching look at the forces that craft our perception of women today.

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Goodman Theatre
170 N Dearborn St
Chicago, IL 60601


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


Chicago-based playwright Rebecca Gilman has won a Joseph Jefferson Award, the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Osborn Award of the American Theatre Critics Association, the George Devine Award, and London's Evening Standard Award as Most Promising Playwright, the first American recipient to be so awarded.

Her four full-length plays all have premiered in Chicago and one, The Glory of Living, has gone on to productions in London and Vienna. A one-act play was included in last year's Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Gilman's Spinning Into Butter premiered in the Goodman Studio Theatre last season, and will be the vehicl[...]


Reviewed by Jonathan Abarbanel on Apr 3, 2000

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