'Stone Cold Dead Serious'.(Previews Coming in February)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, January, 2004 by Rapp, Adam
> The Ledbetters, who live in a Chicago suburb, are down and out--their problems include disability, drug addiction, poverty, you name it--so 16-year-old Wynne, a video-game whiz and computer nerd, sets out to save his family by winning a $1-million TV competition. "Its depiction of a working-class America that is unable to dream of anything beyond enduring is as sincerely sad a commentary on our culture as I've seen in recent memory," declared the New York Times's Bruce Weber when Stone Cold Dead Serious was presented by ...
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