ACT II: A second look at area stages " 'River,' 'Reverb' solid efforts
Here aretwo wildly different shows " one awash in dark-edged Americana-style poetry and song, and one, exceptionally brutal, that goes beyond the pale in its depiction of rage: "Spoon River Anthology" (through June 16 at Provision Theater, 1001 W. Roosevelt): The characters in Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 classic " a collection of free-form poems woven into a play " dwell in the cemetery of the fictional Illinois town of …