Superior Donuts

Tracy Letts, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his epic, family drama, August: Osage County, has shifted gears with this entertaining comedy. In the Chicago north-side neighborhood of Uptown, Arthur Przybyszewski runs the donut shop that has been in his family for sixty years. More content to spend the day smoking weed than running his business, Arthur hires a shop assistant, the young African-American Franco Wicks, who has both an unpublished novel and unpaid gambling debt. Their relationship… Show more is the crux of this heart-warming play, set in the heart of one of Chicago’s most diverse communities, that explores the challenges of embracing the past and the redemptive power of friendship.

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