November 18, 2017November 18, 2017Chicago Reviews Marriott’s Colorful “Sleeping Beauty” Charms Disney’s 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty is so much a part of the canon today that, when feckless King Lapis (Stephen Strafford) in […]
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 17, 2017Musings Reviewing Plays: Why Most Shows Are Recommended Reviewing plays is a funny thing, as it turns out. I’m feeling a bit guilty these days for an absolutely stupid reason: […]
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, 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 […]
