Chicago Theater Review: OPUS 1861: THE CIVIL WAR IN SYMPHONY (City Lit Theater)
A WAR OF IDEAS For the first forty-five minutes of City Lit's OPUS 1861, a miracle occurred: I wept. Consistently. The simple but mighty idea is this: six actors dressed in simple army fatigues (T-shirts, camouflage pants) perform an amalgamation of Civil War songs with letters from U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan. The letters varied [...]