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December 14, 2019December 14, 2019Chicago Reviews

Aroooo! Otherworld's The Winter Wolf returns with its sweet and lovely Christmas tale

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Coming to terms with change is never easy, and death—one of the […]

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019Chicago Reviews

The Santaland Diaries is a hilarious antidote to excessive Christmas cheer

Review by Karen Topham, ChicagoOnstage, member American Theatre Critics Association. Photo by Cody Nieset. So you’re shopping at Christkindlmarket and want to […]

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December 2, 2017December 3, 2017Chicago Reviews

Hellcab is Unusual but Entertaining Holiday Fare

The Agency Theatre Collective is back once again with its unusual holiday offering, Hellcab, Will Kern’s tale of a particularly crazy night in […]

November 29, 2017November 29, 2017Chicago Reviews

“Barney the Elf” a campy, gay Christmas musical change of pace

If your Christmas has been over-Caroled and your Nuts have all been Cracked and you’re just searching for something totally different from your holiday […]

November 28, 2017December 2, 2017Chicago Reviews

Goodman’s Carol Is the Spirit of Christmas Present

Over a million and a half patrons have seen the Goodman Theatre’s annual production of A Christmas Carol since it first opened forty […]

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November 27, 2017November 29, 2017Chicago Reviews

Paramount’s “Elf” Is Simply Sparklejollytwinklejingley

The magic onstage at the Paramount Theatre’s Broadway-quality production of Elf the Musical doesn’t even wait for the show to begin. Parents with […]

Citadel Scrooge
November 18, 2017November 18, 2017Chicago Reviews

Citadel’s “Ghostly Spirits”: An Enjoyable Musical “Christmas Carol”

In a theatrical world overflowing every year with what seem like hundreds of varying takes on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, perhaps […]

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 […]

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