Kirsten Fitzgerald Archives

Danny Goldring is pictured standing outside a locked gate in an alleyway, posed as if he's trying to unlock it. He has reddish hair and a mustache, and wears a dark suit with a light shirt and maroon tie.

Remembering Danny Goldring

by Kerry Reid December 12, 2022December 16, 2022

When news broke over a week ago that Danny Goldring had died at 76, there was (as is often the case these days) an immediate outpouring of tributes on social media. I learned the news from Chicago actor Gary Houston; I sometimes met Goldring and his wife, actor Diane Dorsey, over the years at parties […]

A middle-aged white blonde woman stands behind a kitchen table, leaning in toward a young white man with darker hair who is sitting at the table.

Theater Review

A swing and a miss

by Catey Sullivan October 19, 2022October 19, 2022

As the single most-produced contemporary playwright in the Goodman Theater’s history, Rebecca Gilman has provided audiences with some truly perceptive, unflinching depictions of life’s varied brutalities. 1999’s Spinning Into Butter took on racism at a small, supposedly progressive liberal arts college. Fourteen years before #MeToo, Boy Gets Girl stunned with its take on the nightmarish […]

Young Asian woman on left in pink dress, older white woman in maid outfit looming over her on sofa in front of fireplace

Theater Review

Sinister spinsters

by Kerry Reid January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a brilliantly executed pastiche of everything from Wuthering Heights (the gloomy insalubrious environs of the title) to Rebecca, complete with a menacing parlor maid/scullery maid named either Marjory or Mallory, and suffering from either an unwanted pregnancy or typhus, depending on what room you catch her in. (Played to perfection […]