Monday, 26 June 2017 07:13
David Cerda's "The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes" is Solid Gold Comedy
Written by Kimberly Katz
Fun! Funny! Funnier! If you are fan of The Golden Girls TV show, then run, don't walk, to see Hell in a Handbag’s The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes at Mary's Attic before its special, recently extended, run is over. The show opens with a heart lifting, hug your best…
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Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:38
Review: COR Theatre's "Late Company" at Pride Arts Center
Written by John Accrocco
“Late Company” is the fairly literal title of a new play by Canadian playwright Jordan Tannahill. Presented by COR Theatre, Jessica Fisch directs the regional premiere at Pride Arts Center. The 80-minute play is a response to the uptick in teen suicides triggered by cyberbullying. “Late Company” takes on the…
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Theatre in Review
Saturday, 24 June 2017 02:03
Akvavit's "Hitler on the Roof" Sheds Light on Media Influence
Written by Vika Lvova
In Akvavit Theatre Company's Hitler On The Roof, playwright Rhea Leman has devised the perfect post-mortem punishment for the man behind the Nazi propaganda machine. It’s spring of 1945, Berlin, infamous Fuhrerbunker; the war is all but lost, Hitler had just committed suicide, Dr. Joseph Goebbels and his wife have…
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Theatre in Review
Monday, 19 June 2017 02:37
Moby Dick is a spectacular physical theatre experience
Written by Vika Lvova
Winner of four Jeff Awards, including Best Production, and fresh off a national tour, Moby Dick, adapted and directed by David Catlin from the book by Herman Melville, returns to the Lookingglass Theatre. The play is produced in association with The Actors Gymnasium, a circus and performing arts training center.…
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Theatre in Review
Sunday, 18 June 2017 19:00
The King and I at Oriental Theatre a true theatrical gem
Written by Kimberly Katz
Oriental Theatre is currently housing one of the finest productions of The King and I that you will ever see. From its colorful set to its superb cast including Jose Llana who has mastered the role of the Siamese King, this particular creation if The King and I is simply…
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Theatre in Review
Monday, 12 June 2017 17:29
"Pilgrims" Takes the Universal Story of Falling in Love to Futuristic Heights
Written by Kimberly Katz
As soon as I saw the warm, rich lighting of a luxurious futuristic bedroom on the Space Ship Destiny lit and decorated by designers Heather Gilbert and Christopher Kriz and the set design by Arnel Sancianco, where the entire action of the play takes place, I thought this is going…
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Theatre in Review
In Native Gardens, an ambitious young couple moves into a fixer-upper in an affluent DC neighborhood. Husband Pablo (Gabriel Ruiz) is a lawyer, his pregnant wife Tania (Paloma Nozicka) is working on her doctorate dissertation. Their nice and lively, albeit politically incorrect, neighbors are a defense contractor Virginia (Janet Ulrich…
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Theatre in Review
Tuesday, 13 June 2017 04:28
Delightfully entertaining, Pass Over is a work of genius, and a work of art
Written by Bill Esler
The producers at Steppenwolf describe Pass Over as a “riff on Waiting for Godot” – and that’s true - except for this: Pass Over is not boring. In fact it is gripping and entertaining for every one of its 80 minutes of run time. Written by Antoinette Nwandu and premiering…
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Theatre in Review
In 1996 Ragtime made its stage debut in Toronto and a year later it found itself making waves on Broadway. Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Dotorow, the musical, with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, kept gaining momentum winning thirteen…
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Saturday, 03 June 2017 19:21
"King Liz" Shows It's Not Always Good to be King
Written by Kimberly Katz
From the minute I stepped into Windy City Playhouse’s colorful, elegant the stage area designed by Courtney O’Neill with fantastic lights and sounds by Thomas Dixon, I knew I was in for a treat. King Liz is named for the beautiful, sexy and high-powered sports agent Liz Rico played superbly…
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Theatre in Review
A small theatre resides on the most unlikely of streets in Chicago. Just steps from the Howard Red Line stop sits the Factory theatre, with only fifty seats in its small storefront property, this little powerhouse has produced original work for nearly 25 years. Adding to its catalog of work…
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Theatre in Review
Tuesday, 30 May 2017 13:37
Einstein’s Angry Relations Dominates the Action in Relativity
Written by Bill Esler
The storyline in Relativity is a supposed to be a mystery. The great physicist and mathematical theoretician Albert Einstein fathered a daughter, Liserl, out of wedlock in Switzerland with Mileva Marić– but all mentions of her disappear after the age of two. What happened to her? Several theories have been…
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Theatre in Review
The 90s really must be back because this is the second show about Tonya Harding and Nancy Karigan to debut in Chicago in the past year. American Theater Company's telling is a new play called "T" by Dan Aibel. "T" is a ninety-minute retelling of the infamous 1994 incident from…
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Theatre in Review
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