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Chicago Theater Review: THE LISBON TRAVIATA (Eclipse Theatre Company) by Lawrence Bommer

WHEN LIFE IMITATES OPERA Life imitates opera: Concluding Eclipse Theatre Company's season-long retrospective of oeuvres by Terrence McNally (Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh), The Lisbon Traviata is an artfully self-aware domestic tragedy from 1989. It cruelly conflates culture and crime. Indeed McNally's wicked work plays as if the author made a bet: "I can write a […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05PM on November 9, 2015

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