Media Coverage
MCT Romances Friendship and Poetry in Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH
Monday, October 5, 2015
by Peggy Sue Dunigan, Broadway World; The romance of letter writing centers Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's Midwest premiere of Dear Elizabeth.
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Two poets’ lives artfully captured in ‘Dear Elizabeth’
Thursday, October 1, 2015
by Julie McHale, Waukesha Freeman; Anchored by a strong script by Sarah Ruhl and stellar performances by Norman Moses and Carrie Hitchcock, the lives of poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are brought to light in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s second offering of the 2015-16 season.
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The Personal and the Poetical
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
by Selena Milewski, Shepherd Express; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Dear Elizabeth explores that least understood and most necessary of human relationships, friendship. Sarah Ruhl’s play, adapted from Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, centers on the relationship between two giants of 20th-century American poetry with courage and depth.
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Love (Sort Of) Between Poets
Monday, September 28, 2015
by Dominique Paul Noth, Urban Milwaukee; More than words in the air are needed – and fortunately delivered – to portray two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets whose correspondence and intellectual bonds fashion the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s Dear Elizabeth
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Total Theater review
Monday, September 28, 2015
by Anne Siegel, Total Theater; A carefully selected collection of letters between two of America’s well-known poets opens the fall theater season at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.
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Poets' letters make sweet rhymes in 'Dear Elizabeth'
Sunday, September 27, 2015
by Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; In the preface to "Dear Elizabeth" — her moving play about the friendship between American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell — Sarah Ruhl admits that "it's difficult to write about friendship."
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"Dear Elizabeth" is an intellectual win for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Sunday, September 27, 2015
by Dave Begel, OnMilwaukee.com; Many days and evenings of live theater ask for an audience to bring both heart and head to the theater in equal measure, ready for everything from tears to fears to gales of laughter.
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'Dear Elizabeth' brings a storied poetic friendship to life at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Saturday, September 26, 2015
by Matthew Reddin, Wisconsin Gazette; Dear Reader, Marvelous news! I have just returned from the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of Dear Elizabeth — a play told through the letters of esteemed American poets and friends Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. And it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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