PicksInSix Review: The Lady from the Sea - Court Theatre
“Like a Thief in the Night”
PicksInSix Review® | Ed Tracy
One of the many devastating pandemic-induced hard stops in Chicago was Court Theatre’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Lady from the Sea” that closed on March 11, 2020 after the first dress rehearsal. The eagerly anticipated production, directed by Shana Cooper and starring Chaon Cross as Ellida, was part of a season commemorating the 25th anniversary of Charles Newell, Court’s Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director. Compounding the situation, Court also lost several weeks of Newell’s monumental restaging of “An Illiad” starring Timothy Edward Kane at the Oriental Institute.