John Patrick Shanley's masterful play, "Outside Mullingar," is a tale of thwarted possession of hearts, of land and of self. A superbly acted 90-minute wonder, it is far more comic than tragic as it spins around what might just be the loopiest and most contentious courtship since that of Beatrice and Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing." The post Laughter and longing in John Patrick Shanley’s mast…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:08PM on March 22, 2015