In Goodman Theatre's The World of Extreme Happiness, there are no happy endings.
by Jack Helbig
Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China presented in the Goodman Theatre's world premiere of her drama The World of Extreme Happiness.…[ Read more ]