The Beauty Queen of Leenane presented by Three Crows Theatre at Raven Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Daniel Sappington’s production for Three Crows Theatre, featuring a sturdy quartet of actors, somehow didn’t grab me as much as the play did on first viewing 24 years ago. And I think that’s down to how much McDonagh’s unvarnished black humor and willingness to show the cruelty of humans in close quarters has become more familiar since Beauty Queen first appeared. In Banshees, he ties in the sudden acrimony between two friends on a remote Irish isle to the bloodshed of the civil war on the Irish mainland."

Third Coast Review - Highly Recommended

"...An enormous success in Ireland, London and New York, The Beauty Queen of Leenane was memorably first staged in Chicago almost 25 years ago at Steppenwolf Theatre with Laurie Metcalf in the title role. Since then, the play has been staged here in town at least twice-by the Actor's Workshop Theater in 2006 and at Northlight in 2018-and now it is Three Crows Theatre's turn at this pitch-black yet often riotously funny play."