Actress Alice Ripley has been attached to the 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal" since 2006, when it was workshopped at New York's Second Stage Theatre and she first played the role of Diana Goodman, the bipolar suburban wife and mother who has been locked in grief ever since the death, 16 years earlier, of a young son. Following that workshop, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:58PM on April 20, 2011