June 27, 2023June 30, 2023Chicago Reviews Goodman’s Tommy is a smash (and I’m talking about more than its mirror): an innovative, exciting production that is impressive as hell Photo by Liz Lauren When I saw that the Goodman Theatre had scheduled The Who’s Tommy for this summer, my first reaction […]
April 12, 2023April 12, 2023Chicago Reviews Stuck in the past: The Cherry Orchard is a lovely ending to Robert Falls’ tenure at Goodman Theatre Photo by Liz Lauren Anton Chekhov’s plays have a (deserved) reputation for being brilliant but feeling stuck in time and place. As […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 4, 2017October 25, 2017Chicago Reviews Review: Intense “View” at the Goodman From the Brooklyn Bridge, the view includes the workers on the dock unloading the ships at the piers: to most of us, […]