'Happiness never really lasts," says the young widow at the center of "Vigils," Noah Haidle's fierce, quirky, poetic, deeply poignant, yet often very funny play about love, loss, grief, memory and the difficulty of saying goodbye. I first saw this 75-minute fantasia in 2006, when it was produced on the vast mainstage of the Goodman Theatre, and when it seemed to capture the lingering mourning of the Sept. 11, 2001, a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:26PM on March 7, 2013