THEATER REVIEW: "Peyton Place" at City Lit Theater ★★ KERRY REID reviews "Peyton Place" at City Lit Theater ★★ ... The seamy side of gossipy small towns in New England has been a literary fixture since Hester Prynne defiantly sported that scarlet letter, but Grace Metalious' 1956 potboiler, "Peyton Place," ripped the scabs off the secret festering wounds in Eisenhower America.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 11:10AM on March 4, 2013