Bold, beautiful play needs a little more bite
THEATER REVIEW: "The White Snake" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½ They may be characters in an ancient Chinese fable — with written roots slithering as far back as the Ming Dynasty — but White Snake and her comic sidekick Green Snake, as adapted into 100 minutes of visually splendiferous theater by Mary Zimmerman, aren't so different, dramaturgically speaking, from Thelma and Louise, Romy and M…