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Month: June 2022

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022Chicago Reviews

A star is born in a fun My Fair Lady

Late in My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle, escaping from Professor Higgins’ tyranny, […]

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022Chicago Reviews

Choir Boy explores gay Black manhood at Steppenwolf

It is a wonderful coincidence that now, during Pride month, just after […]

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022Chicago Reviews

Life After is a powerful, poignant, and original look at a father’s death through the eyes of his teenage daughter

There are no “wrong” ways to mourn someone you love. Everyone is […]

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022Chicago Reviews

Prepare Ye: there’s a fun and inventive new Godspell in town

I think that the last time I saw a production of Godspell […]

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022Chicago Reviews

“cullud wattuh” powerfully and provocatively tells the story of the Flint water crisis

If you are like me, you have some vague notion that the […]

June 20, 2022June 21, 2022Chicago Reviews

No Cruel Intentions in this bawdy, vibrant musical from Kokandy

Cruel Intentions, the 90s Musical is a Kokandy production, which is generally […]

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022Chicago Reviews

An absolutely perfect Steel Magnolias at Drury Lane

I have some history with Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias. Besides loving the […]

June 16, 2022June 17, 2022Chicago Reviews

Tommy On Top: farce shouldn’t have to try this hard to be funny

It isn’t often that I can’t find anything good to say about […]

June 15, 2022June 26, 2022Chicago Reviews

Great acting, impressive design, and satanic muppets make for a spectacular “Hand to God”

Think puppets. On stage. Perhaps the first show that comes to mind […]

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022Chicago Reviews, USAOnStage

Hilarity, Hijinx, and Suspense in Milwaukee Rep’s production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express

If theater is meant to inspire, Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s production of Agatha […]

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