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December 4, 2017December 6, 2017Chicago Reviews

Griffin Theatre’s “Violet” a Beautiful Piece of Theatre

Every once in a while there is a play that reaches down and touches your soul and forces you to re-examine what […]

December 3, 2017January 16, 2018Chicago Reviews

Rock and Roll “Sir Gawain” Doesn’t Pass the Test

At the start of Pearl Poet Productions’ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, now playing at the Raven Theatre Complex, Sir Gawain (played […]

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 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 […]

November 20, 2017November 20, 2017Chicago Reviews

Boho Theatre’s “Marie Christine” Is a Visceral, Intense Musical Experience

There are times when a musical theatre presentation comes up and just grabs you, slithers under your skin, and will not let […]

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, 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 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 […]