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Month: April 2018

April 8, 2018Chicago Reviews, USAOnStage

FL OnStage: Stepping Out to the Theatre

Review by Beverly Friend, American Theatre Critics Association member No dialogue! TIME STEP has no story! Just singing and dancing, dancing, dancing. Oh, it […]

April 7, 2018April 7, 2018Chicago Reviews

Funny, Poignant “Red Bowl at the Jeffs” Deserves Your Nomination

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Montana Bruns What is the nature and meaning of friendship? How […]

April 6, 2018April 6, 2018Chicago Reviews

Bad Girls: The Stylists Is a Cut Below the Rest

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association; photos by Karl Clifton-Soderstrom There are fine plays set in hair salons. Steel Magnolias comes […]

April 5, 2018April 6, 2018Chicago Reviews

“Merchant On Venice” Shakespeare Adaptation Full of Wonderful Parts, But They Don’t Come Together

Review by Joe De Rosa; photos by Scott Dray What’s in a name? Just a quick warning. This review might be a […]

April 5, 2018Chicago Reviews

Northlight Mines “Beauty Queen” For All of Its Humor

Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is somewhat difficult to “like.” It takes place in a rundown house in a rundown […]

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018Chicago Reviews

“Mary’s Wedding” Is a Complex, Moving Ride

Review by Karen Topham, American theatre Critics association member; photos by First Folio Sometimes a play becomes such a powerful and emotional […]

April 4, 2018April 4, 2018Chicago Reviews

The Rosenkranz Mysteries: Magic Meets Medicine

Review by Karen Topham, Americsan Theatre Critics Association member; photos by the Rosenkranz Mysteries “How did he do that?” This is the […]

April 4, 2018April 4, 2018Chicago Reviews

Raven’s “The Gentleman Caller” Brings Tennessee Williams and William Inge to Life

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Michael Brosilow “One can never be 100% themselves unless they embrace […]

April 1, 2018Chicago Reviews

For a Wonderful, Hopeful Musical, Fire Up the “Spitfire Grill”

Review by Karen Topham, American Theatre Critics Association member; photos by Zeke Dolezalek Sometimes, these days, it seems as if we’re spiraling […]

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018Articles, Musings

“An Enemy of the People” and “Smart People”: Free Speech Gone Awry

Watching Writers Theatre’s Smart People and the Goodman’s An Enemy of the People back to back this weekend, I was struck by how much […]

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