With better direction and an improved script, Melanie Marnich's These Shining Lives could have been snappier and punchier in the beginning, slowly growing sadder and more poignant as injuries and illnesses became more pronounced and the victims' anger grew. Instead, Kristin Davis opts for lazy and uninspired direction, so the play resembles one straight line instead of a series of peaks and valleys. (review by Laure…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 08:54PM on September 18, 2018