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Month: December 2020

December 24, 2020Chicago Reviews

Dickens’ “The Chimes” focuses on the plight of the poor as it takes us on a different spirit-led holiday journey

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Although you’d never know it from all of the incarnations of A […]

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020Chicago Reviews

There’s too much going on in Steppenwolf’s audio version of “Wally World”

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Steppenwolf’s new audio play, Isaac Gómez’s Wally World, is not a Christmas […]

December 15, 2020December 16, 2020Chicago Reviews

Dickens’ words are the stars of Writers Theatre’s “One-Man A Christmas Carol”

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association; photo by Joe Mazza. Writers Theatre’s Michael Halberstam has been performing an […]

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020Chicago Reviews

George Bailey is saved again in American Blues Theatre’s “wonderful” Christmas show

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association For the last 19 years, Chicago’s American Blues Theatre has presented its […]

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020Chicago Reviews

Manual Cinema adds its own memorable flare to A Christmas Carol.

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association Manual Cinema, Chicago’s interdisciplinary theatre collective specializing in original adaptations performed live […]

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