This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Rebecca Gilman is an American playwright we should be proud of. Gilman writes plays about regular people faced with serous issues—and what's more, after ...

Plays by Rebecca Gilman should come with a warning label: “As seen in Ladies Home Journal.” Gilman constructs heavy, overwritten dramas, including Boy Gets Girl, now onstage in Echo Theatre‘s ...

I’m absolutely mystified by the weakness of this script. Playwright Rebecca Gilman has won awards and been praised in all the right places. Although it had problems, I rather liked her Spinning Into ...

Characters in Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter accuse each other of equivocating, but Gilman’s whole play is an equivocation: It’s a spoof on political correctness that essentially sympathizes ...

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Robin Leary, left, and Leo Hernandez, right perform in Harbinger Theatre’s “Swing State,” running Nov. 14-23 at Sand Lake Center for the Arts. The Chicago Tribune lauded Rebecca Gilman’s drama as “the ...

Harbinger Theatre will close its fourth season with Swing State by Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rebecca Gilman, and directed by Brian Sheldon. Swing State marks Harbinger's 18th Capital Region premiere.

In Rebecca Gilman’s 2022 play “Swing State,” a grief-stricken widow mourns the loss of the insect, plant and animal species that once thrived on her 48 acres of grassland in the American heartland.

AVERILL PARK — Harbinger Theatre is winding up its 2025 season with Rebecca Gilman’s thought-provoking, intriguing dramedy “Swing State.” Through a story set on the prairies of rural Wisconsin, Gilman ...