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Chicago Theater Review: SWEAT (Goodman Theatre) by Lawrence Bommer

DIVIDED AND CONQUERED If the American dream needs an obituary, Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer winner is it. If Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty celebrated the power and promise of labor unions, Sweat chronicles a worker's nightmare. Creating nine palpable characters in crisis, a richly empathetic playwright plunges us into a harrowing tale of deindustrialization in Reading, PA between […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:45PM on March 19, 2019

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