When the leading repertory theater in the nation's most important theater city after New York stages an ambitious new play about one of the greatest disasters in American history; when the play, written by one of the city's major playwrights, is given an elaborate, no-expense-spared production by the theater's Tony-nominated artistic director; and when the play is roundly panned by nearly every critic in town ("A theatrical disaster," said the Chicago Sun-Times) ...