In 15-year-old Sean's life, everything is terrible. There are jerks at school, jerks at home and questions everywhere. At least he's got his secret relationship with Arthur, an older man, and a blossoming friendship with Tova, his lab partner. But as those get more complicated, even things that seemed safe get called into question in the savage, darkly humorous dissection of love, sex and growing up that is Home Before Dark. Written by Will Goldberg (Macduff, We Three), this world-premiere production from The Ruckus Theater takes the stage at Chicago's Berger Park Coach House.

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"RECOMMENDED... the fact that Goldberg’s play advocates on behalf of those in desperate need of guidance, trust and sympathy suggests that the connection to the legacy of the It Gets Better Project runs deep... [Wilhelm] is completely and unshakably present in Sean’s longing... Goldberg possesses a mature grasp on the contradictions latent in what people, especially teenagers, want and how they go about getting it. “Home Before Dark” is a deeply sympathetic and patently un-melodramatic work, an affirmation of fidelity to the victims of abuse and a defining example of how things can, and will, get better."

     -Newcity Stage