November 17, 2017November 17, 2017Chicago Reviews Take an Axe to Other Plans and Go See Firebrand Theatre’s “Lizzie” Lizzie, a musical by Tim Maner, Alan Stevens Hewitt, and Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, is a taut, perfectly structured play in the mode of Sweeney Todd […]
November 16, 2017November 16, 2017Chicago Reviews, USAOnStage FL Review: Dream Cast Hits Just the Right Notes in Dreamgirls If a critic were limited to just one word to describe a performance, the word for Dream Girls would be POWERFUL! What […]
November 16, 2017November 16, 2017Chicago Reviews A Memorable and Impressive “Audience” at Timeline When it comes to Queen Elizabeth II, there is probably no contemporary writer who knows more and is able to convey it […]
November 13, 2017November 13, 2017Musings, USAOnStage Miss Saigon in 2017: What About the Controversies? I’ve been thinking a lot about Miss Saigon ever since seeing the new revival in New York City earlier this month. I’d […]
November 13, 2017Chicago Reviews Three Cheers For Brilliant “Lysistrata Jones” When Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata, one character in Refuge Theatre Project’s Chicago premiere production of the musical Lysistrata Jones asks, do you think he imagined […]
November 13, 2017Chicago Reviews Pegasus Theatre’s ‘Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery’ is moving, masterful Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, written by Shay Youngblood and poignantly directed by Pegasus Theatre’s Ilesa Duncan, is a paean to family- […]
November 12, 2017November 13, 2017Chicago Reviews Theatre Y’s Yerma is an Expressionistic Powerhouse This review has been updated to include a paragraph about lighting and music. Entering the new Theatre Y and Red Tape Theatre […]
November 11, 2017November 22, 2017Chicago Reviews An Exuberant, Magical “Nutcracker” from The House Theatre I had no idea what I was getting into when I went to see The House Theatre’s non-dancing version of The Nutcracker: the […]
November 10, 2017November 10, 2017Musings Schubert Corporation and Broadway’s Cort Theatre Should Be Ashamed To begin with, I am not someone of a highly unusual size. I’m tall for a woman (5’8) and I definitely weigh […]
November 10, 2017November 11, 2017Chicago Reviews TimeLine’s “In the Next Room” is a Place You’ll Want to Visit You go to see a show subtitled “the vibrator play” (small letters are correct). What do you expect? A sex farce? If […]
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