Happy Endings at Stage 773

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...Adam Benjamin directs a cast that navigates the deliberately ambivalent tone of Tassell's text with unwavering conviction and irresistible charm right up to the unsatisfying denouement, for which we should have been prepared by Eddie's earlier assertion that life doesn't always offer the kind of tidy closure that you find in fiction. So we can't say we weren't warned, but by the time the ax falls, we are so emotionally invested in Matt Messina's, Daniella Collucci's and Patrick Belics' piteously vulnerable young lovers—we can even sympathize with their airheaded het sidekick Stan, played by Joseph Galizia—that we depart the theater in hopeful anticipation of a possible reconciliation, once the alarums and excursions subside and the devastated comrades can discuss the situation from the rational perspective granted us by our brief respite from the shock of immediate confrontation."