Three women stand in a row. The woman on the left wears a headband with Santa heads. The woman on the right wears a holiday sweater and holds up a blue cocktail dress anda gift bag. The woman in between is in a long brown skirt and gray sweater.

The early moments of Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World, now in a heartfelt midwest premiere with About Face Theatre under Keira Fromm’s direction, reminded me a bit of Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche’s enchanting made-in-Chicago 1994 lesbian romance film, Go Fish. As in the film, the two women who become lovers […]

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