Lindsay Mummert Archives - Chicago Reader

A middle-aged white man in olive khakis and a light shirt stands left. Behind him is a shadowy female figure in a light dress on a platform. A pile of record albums is leaning against the platform on which she stands

My old Kentucky home

by Dmitry Samarov May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

The Gift Theatre marks its return to live performance after a two-year absence with the Chicago premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s bittersweet ode to memory and place. Directed by Lavina Jadhwhani, it is a series of sometimes wistful, sometimes nostalgic, but always affecting monologues told by a succession of related characters in a Kentucky town, over […]

Two women sit on a couch underneath a blanket. The woman on the left is Black, with her hair in braids. The woman on the right is white, with short blond hair.

Theater Review

West Virginia woes

by Kerry Reid March 31, 2022April 4, 2022

Williamson, West Virginia, is in the heart of Hatfield-McCoy history, but the conflict driving apart a family in Madison Fiedler’s Spay, now in a world premiere at Rivendell under Georgette Verdin’s direction, is rooted in opioids, not moonshine. Kindergarten teacher Harper (Krystel McNeil) has just brought home her half-sister Noah (Rae Gray) from the hospital, […]