BRILLIANT “MEAN GIRLS” OPENS GOODMAN SEASON
Guest Contributor | Scott Gryder

How many of you can relate to the hierarchy of the social food chain of your own school days? If you’re like me, Goodman Theatre’s long-awaited production of “School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play” all-too perfectly delivers a visceral thrill of the high school hunt. But, before I delve deeper into this elegantly balanced comedy-drama, I have to say: Chicago’s theatrical community is resilient. Though masks were required at all times, and socially distanced seating was in place, the house bubbled with the hubbub and comradery expected of any opening night. But you knew the house was even hungrier than ever for the kind of theatre only Chicago can deliver, when it shook with rapturous applause as the house lights dimmed, and the play began.