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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Preview: City Theatre's 'Little Gem' explores struggles of three working-class Irish women
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Director Kimberly Senior's long and varied body of work reads like a who's who of playwrights, from the classics to the contemporary. Amid names such as Chekhov, Williams, Miller and McDonagh is Irish playwright David Grieg, whose "The Monster in the Hall" was a lauded City Theatre production last year.
Mutual friends had been telling both Ms. Brigden and Ms. Senior that they should work together and looking at that list, it seemed that their paths were bound to cross. It came to pass when the Chicago-based director was asked by Tracy Brigden, City's producing artistic director, to make her Pittsburgh debut with "Little Gem," by Irish playwright Elaine Murphy.
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