Rebecca Gilman's last play at the Goodman, 2010's "A True History of the Johnstown Flood," used the 1889 cataclysm that killed more than 2,200 people as a sweeping indictment of Gilded Age class privilege. It was a massive production, thematically and physically, from the writer whose taut blend of personal and political in the Goodman world premieres of "Spinning Into Butter" and "Boy Gets Girl" launched her nationa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 06:12PM on January 15, 2014