Eli Newell's self-directed holiday play at Raven asks us to suspend too much disbelief. If there's a workable drama within the rambling, under-rehearsed confines of playwright/director Eli Newell's Cold Town/Hotline, it hasn't yet emerged. This is one of those shows where the plot wouldn't exist if any single character behaved in any way remotely resembling human reality.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:05PM on December 10, 2019