Goodman Theatre’s ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ takes flight

Chicago Sun-Times: Love, fame, beauty and youth. Unquestionably it is easier to catch a wind-swept cloud than to hold onto all those fleeting, ephemeral things that so frequently bring as much pain as pleasure. Perhaps more than any other playwright, Tennessee Williams understood the compulsive quest for such gifts. He also had an uncanny sense of how some, driven by brute power, cruelty and envy, try to destroy those who, no matter how briefly, are able to possess them.