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Month: October 2021

October 30, 2021October 30, 2021Chicago Reviews

Invictus Theater’s Hamlet is “Madness, but there be Method in it”

“Who’s there?”  So begins Shakespeare’s Hamlet, an exploration of humanity through the […]

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021Chicago Reviews

Who knew that Eurydice could be such a perfect metaphor for our times?

In a Director’s Note, Kathy Scambiatterra refers to Sarah Ruhl’s Euridyce as […]

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021Chicago Reviews

E. Faye Butler is completely awesome in Goodman’s Fannie

Can we just turn E. Faye Butler’s name into a verb that […]

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021Chicago Reviews

Giordano Dance Chicago’s Illuminate Lights Up the Night

There’s a chance, maybe a slim chance, but there’s a chance it’s […]

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021Chicago Reviews

Scary and Smart: The Jigsaw Bride Breathes New Life into a Monstrous Story

The Peabody Estate on an October night. The eerily intriguing botanical laboratory […]

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021Chicago Reviews

It’s easy to love CST’s Beatles-infused As You Like It…yeah, yeah, yeah

I don’t want to spoil the party, but I’ve got a feeling […]

October 15, 2021October 19, 2021Chicago Reviews

Rick Bayless and Windy City Playhouse serve up comedy and food in “A Recipe For Disaster”

Photo by Kyle Flubacker Windy City Playhouse pretty much always provides its […]

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021Chicago Reviews

Nick Diffatte’s “Offbeat” Comedy Magic Show is Comedy Magic

You enter through a laundromat. …is a sentence I never thought I […]

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021Chicago Reviews

Masterful acting helps “This Wide Night” show the human side of ex-cons

Society tells us that convicts must “pay their debt” before it will […]

October 11, 2021Chicago Reviews

The only “horrible” thing about the excellent “Dr. Horrible” is the ridiculous intermissions

By Karen Topham; photo by Evan Hanover “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” began […]

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