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Month: July 2022

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022Chicago Reviews

There’s a lot to love about The Playboy of the Western World

There’s a lot to love about The Playboy of the Western World.  Well, not the actual playboy. There’s not really all that […]

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022Chicago Reviews

Drag Disco Divas on tour: a thoroughly winning “Priscilla”

I only have vague memories of the film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, though I know I enjoyed it and have long […]

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022Chicago Reviews

Jesus Christ Superstar’s 50th Anniversary tour returns to Chicago with most of its manic glory intact

The Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar is about as iconic a musical as the modern era has produced. The familiar territory of this show–not […]

July 20, 2022July 21, 2022Chicago Reviews

Oak Park’s The Winter’s Tale proves to be a perfect choice for this era

In his director’s note for Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at Oak Park Theatre Festival, Kevin Theis writes, “When the leader of your […]

July 20, 2022July 21, 2022Chicago Reviews

In “Light Falls,” a death teaches a lot about how to live

“There’s nobody looking,” the woman in the middle of the stage (played by Kendra Thulin) says. Her name, she tells us, is […]

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022Chicago Reviews

Marriott Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz is a small slice of pure joy!

As Dorothy (Campbell Krausen) and the munchkins (Matthew Bettencort, Mandy Modic, and Laura Savage) danced around the yellow brick road while a […]

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022Chicago Reviews

Real Housewives of Dionysus: Hurricane Diane takes on climate change

Another day, another supernatural visitor heads to New Jersey. Marvel fans already know the havoc that Wanda Maximoff (aka The Scarlet Witch) […]

July 7, 2022July 7, 2022Chicago Reviews

A brand new theatre company opens its doors with a very good “Summer and Smoke”

In Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams explores the interior conflict between the physical and spiritual parts of human nature. As he does […]

July 4, 2022July 4, 2022Chicago Reviews

The Story Theatre weaves history and “not history” into a brilliant conflation of revolution and the Black experience

As its name implies, The Story Theatre knows how to tell a story. The young company, only in its third season, has […]

July 3, 2022July 3, 2022Chicago Reviews

CST’s campy It Came From Outer Space takes us “out there”

If you are looking for a perfectly silly and fun piece of summer entertainment, the theatrical equivalent of a great beach read, […]

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