General From America, Timeline Theatre Company, opens Aug. 26. His name is synonymous with disloyalty and mistrust, but what made Benedict Arnold betray his fellow rebels and defect to the British? Richard Nelson makes a case for the famous traitor in this historical drama.
The Water Coolers, Lakeshore Theatre, open run. Witty Sondheimesque
songs and a cast with enough sparkle to light up Wrigley Field on a midwinter day make this compassionate look at the cubicle-and-clipboard crowd the perfect T.G.I.F. party show.
—Mary Shen Barnidge