Tuesdays With Morrie at Provision Theater Company

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Provision Theater's production, helmed by artistic director Timothy Gregory, features Colin Wasmund, who plays Albom with wonderful aw-shucks buoyancy, and company member Brad Armacost, who bravely cuts through Albom's sententious schmaltz with a pitch-perfect performance. Morrie's terminal illness unfolds gradually and painfully, and there's something almost indecent about watching someone decay and die onstage, but viewers who have sat watch alongside ailing friends or relatives will doubtless be moved by Armacost's realism."

ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended

"...The question of how to live a "good life," a life rich in meaning and purpose, is as old as it is seemingly without absolute, universal answer. Tuesdays With Morrie brings this question to fore of our minds - somewhere we may seldom find it - and juxtaposes it with its absolute limit: death. "I do as the Buddhists do," Morrie tells Mitch, "Every day, I have a little bird on my shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be? Is today the day I die?'" In our pell-mell world of wanton entertainment and immediate gratification, a play that shakes us with the sobering question of our being towards death can be as rare to find - anywhere - as it can be disconcerting to behold. Fortunately, Morrie's more hearthstone than brimstone, and there's plenty of warm humor to ease the load, making Tuesdays With Morrie a wonderfully vivacious and poignant play for all to see."