Ten Most Wanted 2008: Our Town

Christopher Piatt, TimeOut Chicago

#2. Our Town by the Hypocrites at Chopin Theatre - "Skeptics rolled their eyes when this project was announced; by the curtain call of the Hypocrites’ urban, rigorously unsentimental Our Town, few of those eyes were still dry. Under the fleet command of director David Cromer, who also brandished the audacity/wisdom to play the narrating stage manager himself, an all-storefront cast (led by starkly radiant Jennifer Grace as Emily) made a compelling case that Thornton Wilder’s meditation on futility is one of the most important plays in the canon. The infamous third-act appearance of frying bacon was the only fat on Cromer’s stunningly realized choreo-poem.