Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

Corsicana ""Watching Corsicana, I felt it was about who gets to make art, and for whom. Reading it, I felt it was about how becoming 'grown' is, for anyone, a lifelong process of failing upward. Thinking back on it, I feel it was about the way the world tucks beauty inside envelopes of sorrow, and vice versa . . . Without ignoring the bone-deep sadness of characters confused and stymied by loss, it lets us watch them climb their way out of it--heading toward joy and sharing some in the process."" --Jesse Green, New York Times ""The four characters of Arbery's Corsicana are all figuring things out: how to mature, how to move on, how to love, how to express. And they're all taking care of each other in little ways . . . Will Arbery is quickly establishing himself as the poet of Texas loneliness. He is one of the most excit-ing playwrights working in the American theater, stretching the form to new shapes and expanding his voice with each successive play."" --Lane Williamson, Exeunt Evanston Salt Costs Climbing ""In a great piece of art, you'll have one moment where the truth will punch through. But in a pro-foundly generous piece of art, like Evanston--a play that is theoretical, painful, deep, and hysteri-cally funny--those moments of truth keep punch-ing through and through and through."" --Chloe Cooper Jones, Bomb Magazine ""Arbery is the playwright of the moment. His proj-ect as a playwright is to yank away that 'dishon-est mask of pretended order, ' using the means he has at hand--the empathetic tools of performance and the electrifying effects of wild unreality."" --Helen Shaw, New Yorker