'Schooner' charts its annual course to heart of Chicago's Christmas
THEATER REVIEW: "The Christmas Schooner" at the Mercury Theater ★★★½ KERRY REID reviews "The Christmas Schooner" at the Mercury Theater ★★★½ ... Although the ship that inspired it, the Rouse Simmons, has spent the last century on the bottom of Lake Michigan, "The Christmas Schooner" is shipshape for the holidays at the Mercury Theater, where director L. Walter Stearns promis…