Misha Davenport is the chief critic for Broadway World Chicago. A Chicago-based freelance writer, blogger, critic and singer. He studied playwriting at Michigan State University under the late Arthur Athanason. He covered theater in the Windy City for more than a decade at the Chicago Sun-Times. He is a fierce advocate and lover of live theater from shows in 50-seat storefronts to big Broadway blockbusters.
May 4, 2016
CHESS, Porchlight Musical Theatre's final staged reading in the third season of its 'lost' musicals-as- staged-concert series manages to present the show's glorious, pop opera score in all its glory and nearly succeeds in covering up the fault lines that run through the book.
April 19, 2016
Chicago musical funny man Bill Larkin sits down for 10 on Tuesday
April 18, 2016
Porchlight's production of DREAMGIRLS is a theater lover's dream come true.
March 25, 2016
Sound problems mar an otherwise spectacular tour.
March 18, 2016
Theo Ubique scores with director Scott Winstein's timeless and topical production of Jonathan Larson's RENT.
March 3, 2016
If family-friendly musicals were Easter eggs, NightBlue Performing Arts Company's production of Disney's MARY POPPINS is Faberge.
February 28, 2016
Coming off of an impressive five 2015 Broadway World awards, suburban-based Up And Coming Theatre stages one of its most ambitious theatrical events yet --Andrew Lippa's THE WILD PARTY--in an Elk Grove Village nightclub. For the most part, it pays off handsomely.
February 26, 2016
Hold onto your corn nuts! The cult classic film leaps to the stage in the Chicago premiere of HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
February 17, 2016
JEEVES AT SEA's Christian Gray tells us what's on his playlist
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