It was compact and graceful, harrowing and illuminating. “Eric LaRue,” directed by the actor Michael Shannon, is built around a similar situation, as it works its way toward a confrontation ...

But it’s insufficient, and can harm as much as it helps. That insufficiency of language is the stealth subject of “Eric LaRue,” the feature directorial debut of Michael Shannon. Stealth ...

Judy Greer easily embraced Michael Shannon’s film-directing debut, the somber “Eric LaRue,” with its sadly relevant subject of children killing children. Inspired, obviously, by terrible ...

Based on Brett Neveu’s 2002 play, which he adapted into a script, the brittle drama “Eric LaRue” reflects the intense, earnest style of its director, Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon ...

Michael Shannon’s directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” is now playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. The film, based on a 2002 play by the same name, follows a mother numbly ...

That was where Neveu’s play “Eric LaRue,” a tense, mordantly comic drama about what Shannon calls “the aftermath of the aftermath” of a school shooting, had its world premiere 23 years ago.

Judy Greer, Alexander Skarsgård, and Alison Pill are perfectly cast in the adaptation of Brett Neveu's 2002 play. Greer’s Janice aimlessly wonders how culpable she is in her serial killer son ...

Chicago is such a vital city for theatre, and Michael Shannon’s directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” comes directly out of that tradition. Written by Red Orchid ensemble member Brett Neveu, the play had ...