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Theatre Wed Sep 09 2009
Stoop Stories: Joan's Loss is Chicago's Gain
Let's take a quick straw poll. Would you rather see:
A) A complex adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's Die Jungfrau Von Orléans.
B) A dynamic black actress show off an astounding range, from a Polish Holocaust survivor to a poetic junkie to a teenage Puerto Rican punk.
If you picked A, you're out of luck. The Goodman Theatre scrapped Joan D'Arc because it "needed time for artistic development." In its place, they slotted Stoop Stories.
Playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith takes the stage on her own playing 11 characters in a sizzling, fierce symphony of voices that make up her Harlem neighborhood. The show's coming off a white-hot Washington, D.C. debut, where critics threw around words like "spellbinding" and "triumph."
Stoop Stories opens at the Goodman's Owen Bruner Theatre on Sept. 12 for a month-long run. Tickets are $10 to $40 and available from The Goodman Theatre.
