I first saw Willy Russell's "Blood Brothers" in London's West End in 1983. I was already a rabid young fan of Russell's work. Plays such as "Educating Rita," "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens" not only celebrated working-class creativity and the class-jumping power of education, but they were populist,...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 06:37PM on September 30, 2015