Tesla’s Letters Review in the Chicago Sun-Times

Tale of Serbia’s gloom unfolds in ‘Letters’
One fascinating moment in history is captured, but details sometimes get in way

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TimeLine Theatre invariably sets its lobby abuzz with elaborate, informative displays supplying crucial background for the historically inspired plays it favors. But it has gone one step further for its latest show, Jeffrey Stanley’s “Tesla’s Letters” — a tale set against the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, that also delves into the life of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Croatian-born Serbian-American scientist responsible for the transmission of electricity as we know it. CONT’D