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Month: November 2022

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022Chicago Reviews

Goodman’s 45th “A Christmas Carol” continues to sparkle with the light of the season

Photo by Liz Lauren When you know that a production is in its 45th year and that the same actor has played […]

November 27, 2022November 27, 2022Chicago Reviews

It’s a blue Christmas as Second City gets horny for the holidays

You can always count on Second City to find ways to make you laugh…and to push envelopes…with any of their shows. They […]

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022Chicago Reviews

Jackalope’s “Among the Dead” is wonderfully complex and darkly funny

Photo by Joel Maisonet There are many plays that deal with the discarded children of soldiers who are abroad fighting wars. One […]

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022Chicago Reviews

Enjoy holiday nostalgia with an exuberant “A Christmas Story: the Musical” at Marriott Theatre

Christmas season is a time of year when we most enjoy the comfort of the familiar, a fact that explains, perhaps, why […]

November 11, 2022November 12, 2022Chicago Reviews

“Malapert Love” is the funniest show of the year.

Photo by Joe Mazza Brave Lux Malapert /ˈmaləpərt/ ARCHAIC: adjective… “boldly disrespectful to a person of higher standing”; noun… “an impudent person” […]

November 11, 2022November 11, 2022Chicago Reviews

“Trouble in Mind” delves into racial tension on Broadway in 1957

Photo by Liz Lauren Alice Childress’ powerful play Trouble in Mind did not get its planned Broadway run in the mid-1950s because […]

November 7, 2022November 8, 2022Chicago Reviews

The Twenty-Sided Tavern Rolls a Natural Twenty

Review by Joe De Rosa You walk into the lobby of the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place and gaze at the […]

November 4, 2022November 11, 2022Chicago Reviews

525,600 minutes of joy, pain, love, and death in two and a half hours in Porchlight’s wonderful “Rent”

Photo by Liz Lauren I’ve seen Rent more than half a dozen times…not even including the times I’ve watched the film…so I […]

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022Chicago Reviews

City Lit’s The Mark of Kane grippingly shows the true story of Batman

(Photo by Steve Graue) I remember, as a child, riding my bike to Schofield’s, a local stationary store, to spend hours leafing […]

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022Articles

Mini Movie Reviews: Halloween Edition

So this weekend, in honor of Halloween, I watched three highly acclaimed horror movies I had never seen. My mini-reviews: (Spoilers may […]

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