Monday, 25 September 2017 16:42
“The Legend of Georgia McBride” is Packed with Laughs and Pink Feather Boas!
Written by Kimberly Katz
“The Legend of Georgia McBride” written by Matthew Lopez, is an adorable and entertaining piece brought to sexy, vibrant life by an exquisitely multi-talented cast of characters. The play is set in a dusty part of the Florida panhandle at a run-down club called Cleo's owned by Eddie played with…
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Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:59
Court Theatre's "Five Guys Named Moe" is non-stop fun
Written by Vika Lvova
The live sounds of 30’s and 40’s jazz transform Court Theatre into a music venue in this production of Five Guys Named Moe. Written by Clarke Peters and directed by Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson, with Music Director Abdul Hamid Royal and Associate Director Felica P. Fields, this lively musical…
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Wednesday, 20 September 2017 02:49
Review: Goodman's "A View from the Bridge"
Written by John Accrocco
The Goodman Theatre almost never includes a show in their subscriber season that they haven’t developed themselves. Dutch director Ivo van Hove began his vivid production of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” in London before bringing it to Broadway in 2016. It went on to win the Tony…
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Monday, 18 September 2017 16:20
TATC's "Big River" Brings Twain Characters Back to Life
Written by CJ Burroughs
There has never been a better Broadway marriage of story and storyteller – until Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, three decades later, anyway – than Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and songsmith Roger Miller. Floating between aching country ballads, soulful slave spirituals, and the side-splitting novelty tunes that made…
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Sunday, 10 September 2017 20:40
Drury Lane's "Rock of Ages" "Ain't nothin" but a good time"
Written by Ken Payne
For Chicagoans that grew up in the 1980’s music scene, we remember favorite rock clubs such as The Thirsty Whale, Chances R and Dirty Nellies where spandex and rayon were the materials of choice and eye-liner on Aqua-net sprayed, long-haired guys was all the rage. For the glam rock scene,…
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Tuesday, 12 September 2017 22:41
After Many Tribulations, Muthaland Finds Its Home
Written by Jacob Davis
Minita Gandhi’s autobiographical one-woman show is making its official world premiere as the final production of the 16th Street Theater’s tenth anniversary season, but it’s already been subject to a huge number of raves. Developed at Silk Road Rising and Victory Gardens, earlier versions of Muthaland were performed at everything…
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Friday, 08 September 2017 20:06
(re)discover's "FOR ONE" is an unusual theatre amusement park
Written by Vika Lvova
The historic Gunder Mansion in Edgewater opens its doors for a unique theatre experience: a fifty-minute event consisting of five distinct plays, each unfolding in a separate room of the mansion and designed for an audience of one. The entire audience consists of only ten members; there are two tracks…
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Tuesday, 05 September 2017 17:40
Review: Kokandy's "Bonnie and Clyde" at Theatre Wit
Written by John Accrocco
“This world will remember me,” Bonnie and Clyde sing to each other in Kokandy Productions’ presentation of “Bonnie & Clyde” – a musical. Directed by Spencer Neiman, this odd-ball musical makes its area premiere after an unsuccessful Broadway run in 2011. This production also marks the fifth anniversary of Kokandy…
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Sunday, 03 September 2017 16:26
"Honeymoon in Vegas" So Fun It's like Taking a Vegas Vacation!
Written by Kimberly Katz
If you like Vegas like I like Vegas, you will love Marriott Theatre’s energetic and top notch, romantic musical comedy production of "Honeymoon in Vegas"! Jack Singer (Michael Mahler) is in love with his girlfriend of five years Betsy Nolan (played with terrific spunk and formidable singing chops by Samantha…
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Thursday, 31 August 2017 23:48
What Does the Queen Do? The Audience Explains Why Brits Have Royalty
Written by Bill Esler
You don’t need to be an Anglophile to love The Audience. Directed admirably by Nick bowling, it is written by Peter Morgan, the trending screenwriter of the The Queen (Helen Mirren) and the Netflix series The Crown, developed another angle on portraying Queen Elizabeth II: recounting a number of the…
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017 16:09
Barbecue’s wacky family is wildly entertaining
Written by Vika Lvova
Strawdog theatre begins its 2017-2018, 30th Anniversary Season with a Chicago Premiere of Barbecue by Robert O’Hara. Barbecue is performed at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre as a LookOut Visiting Company. In Strawdog’s Barbecue, a spirited trailer trash family is having a summer barbecue with an ulterior motive in mind: they want…
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Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:33
Review: "Trevor the Musical" at Writers Theatre
Written by Kimberly Katz
"Trevor the Musical" tells the tale of a beautiful young boy in the 1970's who is just discovering his love of choreography and dance. He is also lovesick for an older boy in his school during a time when same sex relationships were not as socially acceptable or acknowledged as…
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Saturday, 26 August 2017 00:47
Chad Deity, a Manly Send-up of Pro Wrestling, Asks How We Choose Our Villains
Written by Bill Esler
Kristoffer Diaz’s “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” is getting a knock-out revival by Red Theater. Named for the colorfully staged, and bombastic entrances of professional wrestlers - with costumes, smoke, lights, confetti, and plenty of trash-talking put-downs of their rivals to rile up the audience - pro wrestling is…
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