Yes, it’s Friday. Yes, I’m in The Wall Street Journal. No, I’m not in New York–OGIC is posting the weekly drama-column teaser in my absence, bless her! Two shows this week, one in New York (Charles Grodin’s The Right Kind of People) and one in Chicago (Chicago Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing). Here goes:
Reality-based theater–what I call theatrical journalism–comes in flavors ranging from the poetic (“Henry V”) to the pedestrian (“Guant