Barbara Gaines says goodbye to CST with a hilarious Comedy of Errors
Photo by Liz Lauren Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s founder and artistic director Barbara Gaines, easily one of the city’s most prolific and influential […]
Very personal Tina Turner musical totally rocks
Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade When Ike and Tina Turner were popular recording artists, I was—I will admit—not a huge fan…which […]
“Annie” is impossible not to love
Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmermann for MurphyMade OK, you already know this one, don’t you? Since its 1977 debut, Annie […]
Touring production of non-traditional 1776 is the show at its most powerful and poignant
Photo by Joan Marcus Following in the huge footprints of Hamilton, the prototype of atypically-cast Founding Father stories, last year’s revival of […]
“Once” is at its very best at Writers Theatre
Photo by Michael Brosilow Once was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I had not ever done the whole “go […]
“Happiness is not a potato.” Charlotte Brontë, in Villette, cultivates a more realistic and complicated kind of love
Photo by Liz Lauren Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Our heroine is a young, intelligent 19th Century woman with no […]
Time to return, very enthusiastically, “Into the Woods”
The second you walk into the Paramount Theatre to see its production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, you are transported by […]
“The Christians”: a plunge into the theological discussion pool
Photo by North Shore Camera Club by Samantha Robison In today’s modern America, which is increasingly obsessed with putting our everyday lives on display for […]
Big Fish is jumping at Marriott
Big Fish has never been the flashiest of musicals. It had its origin in a slim volume of stories by Daniel Wallace, […]
Blazing a Trail: Boho Theatre’s outstanding all-TGNC “tick…tick…BOOM!” redefines the play
Photo by Jenn Udoni (he/they) – Franco Images Photography “Cages or wings: Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, […]