“The Gin Game” is a nasty piece of business. The Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 play by Donald L. Coburn seems at first like a charming little comedy about two lonely residents at a nursing home ...

Paula Scrofano and John Reeger co-star in D.L. Coburn’s play, “The Gin Game,” at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace. (Photo: Brett Beiner) Share It is worth heading to the Drury Lane ...

As they play, they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world. But when Fonsia wins every hand, Weller becomes increasingly frustrated, until their gin games and conversations ...

One of the strangers, resident Weller Martin (John Musgrave), knows how to play the card game gin and has been waiting to play it with the right person. New resident Fonsia Dorsey (Jackie Blue ...

One is the game of gin rummy. The other is Fonsia Dorsey, a female newcomer to Bentley who foolishly agrees to play the card game with him. Foolishly because the one thing Weller hates most of all ...