Last chance for Horizon Theatre’s tasty ‘Donuts’
There’s still time to catch Horizon Theatre’s charming, highly entertaining comedy of mismatched doughnut shop workers.
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- TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS: Eric J. Little and Chris Kayser
“Dinner theater” is a hopelessly derided concept, but “snack theater” may be an idea whose time has come. Horizon Theatre’s Superior Donuts takes place at the eponymous Chicago doughnut-and-coffee shop, so the audience spends two hours listening to rhapsodic, mouth-watering talk of the fatty, sugary pastries for two hours. Horizon Theatre has teamed with Midtown’s Sublime Doughnuts to sell refreshments at intermission, so the audience lines up with ravenous appetites and gets to engage its taste buds along with its eyes and ears.
As opposed to the kind of dougtnuts with a hole, the Horizon production, directed by Jeff Adler, has a bit of filling inside, although it’s more sweet than nutritious. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts takes a vacation from his hit psychosexual dramas like Killer Joe and Bug to present a formulaic but satisfying comedy redolent with Chicago’s local color.