Court's Oedipus Rex is anchored by a brilliant performance by Kevin Roston, Jr.
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Michael Brosilow. It’s likely that pretty much everyone going to […]
Month: November 2019
Victory Gardens’ The First Deep Breath takes on all sorts of social issues en route to being one of the year’s best plays
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Liz Lauren. If Lee Edward Colston II’s The First Deep […]
“Always…Patsy Cline” showcases the singer’s songbook in a beautiful and personal musical
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Michael Brosilow. The first thing you notice upon walking into […]
Drury Lane’s “Mary Poppins” is a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious good time
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Brett Beiner. For countless Americans, including me, Walt Disney’s Mary […]
The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass–An Enchanting Holiday Play Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen Before
Review by Joe De Rosa; photo by Liz Lauren. “Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so […]
The music is the thing in Steppenwolf’s Lindiwe
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Michael Brosilow. Ever since they burst onto the US music […]
Sexually open Queen of Sock Pairing is about one woman’s desire for control in her life
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Austin D. Oie. Considering that, at one point near the […]
“Packing” takes us through the last 50 years of gay history in a devastating one-man show
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Cody Jolly Photography. From the opening image of amber waves […]
Welcome to the Kingdom of Other for BET’s joyful adaptation of Cinderella.
Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Alan Davis. Jackie Taylor’s The Other Cinderella, an inventively reimagined […]
What’s This? The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween Tradition Not to Miss
Review by Joe De Rosa Boys and girls of every age/ Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?/ Come with us and […]