The Chicago premiere of Harrison David Rivers' two-hander, equal parts searing and touching, gut-wrenching and romantic. Director Mikael Burke and Rivers are a dream team of truth: this story of an interracial couple navigating America's divisive, violent political environment could have been a plethora of well-worn clichés. Instead, This Bitter Earth challenges the complacency of even the most supposedly "woke" of …
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 06:54PM on November 9, 2018