The dramaturgy displays alone for Mercury Theater Chicago's Big River, based on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, taught me more about Mark Twain's 1830s-set, biting antislavery novel than I learned from studying the book in junior high, high school, undergrad, and grad school combined. First off, the musical (music and lyrics by Roger Miller, book by […] The post Timely Twain appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:17AM on May 4, 2023