Tesla’s Letters Review in Chicago Critic


War & peace, science and humanity come together in a suspenseful drama

Timeline Theatre’s slogan: “Yesterday’s stories, today’s topics,” is amply present in Jeffrey Stanley’ssemi-autobiographical drama, Tesla’s Letters. This is a suspenseful and well written drama that combines recent history of the 1990’s breakup of Yugoslavia with a profile of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), a Croatian born Serbian inventor. 

“What first drew me to Tesla’s Letters was the insight it gave into both the life of Nikola Tesla and the violent division of Yugoslavia in the mid ‘90s,” said director Nick Bowling. CONT’D