'The Last Wide Open' review: Play weaves beautiful music into love scenes from a Polish restaurant
“The Last Wide Open” is billed as a “love song in three movements.” The movements (or acts) are punctuated by acoustic music, but unlike a traditional musical, there’s no splashy choreography — or even a chorus — in the three-person, 80-minute production running through Aug. 18 at American Blues Theater. In the immersive set meticulously modeled after Polish restaurants in Wicker Park and Jefferson Park, the trio that comprises the cast in this music-punctuated romance delivers the kind of emotional punch that pierces the heart. Читать дальше...