BWW Review: Remounting of BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI at Steppenwolf's 1700 Theatre Fuels the Mind and the Heart
Evan Linder's new play BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI begins with a scene familiar to those in the audience: a mother and her adult daughter squabbling.
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BWW Review: Sometimes You Get Stuck BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY at Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Parts of the plot of Between Riverside and Crazy reflect events and situations very similar to those happening in society today.
BWW Review: Come TOMORROW MORNING, Kokandy Modestly Approaches Love and Marriage
A daring company takes it easy this summer, which may just be OK.
BWW Review: 'Impossible Dream' Realized in Marriott's MAN OF LA MANCHA
From the haunting opening notes to the robust finale, there's not a wrong note in Marriott Theatre's latest musical, MAN OF LA MANCHA.
BWW Review: Newly Conceived THE FIREBIRD Belies the Clarity of it Creator's Vision
Piecing together a new mythology is an audacious undertaking, and yet it is an act that is at the very heart of theatre-making: the building of a new world, with its own origins and order, that only becomes fully realised when an audience believes in it.
BWW Review: Windy City Playhouse's THIS Muddles in the In-Between
Both Melissa James Gibson's play THIS and Windy City Playhouse's production exist on a precipice.
BWW Review: Marriage is Good COMPANY Policy
To be or not to be … married.
BWW Review: A Delightful Dive into THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL
Ethan Slater offers a star-making turn as everyone's favorite Sponge.
BWW Review: Lifeline's Blossoming NORTHANGER ABBEY is an Early Summer Charmer
Lifeline gives new musical life to Austen obscurity.
BWW Review: THADDEUS AND SLOCUM an Act For the Ages
Lookingglass Theatre always brings thought-provoking, visually entertaining work to its stage, and its latest production fits that bill, for the most part.
BWW Review: Hell in a Handbag's THE DIVINE SISTER
Chicago's camp theater troupe Hell in a Handbag scores with the premiere of Charles Busch's send up of nun films, THE DIVINE SISTER.
BWW Review: The Sweet SOUND OF MUSIC Fills the Cadillac Palace
Broadway In Chicago's engagement of THE SOUND OF MUSIC national tour makes for a pleasant and tuneful evening at this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
BWW Review: CONSTELLATIONS at Steppenwolf Tells A Universal, Intimate Love Story
In the opening moments of Nick Payne's new play CONSTELLATIONS-now in its Chicago premiere in the Upstairs Theatre at Steppenwolf-the playwright presents audiences with an archetypal 'Boy Meets Girl' story.
BWW Review: CHICAGO Brings its City a 'Splendiferous' Show
There's a moment during the ritzy, jazzy smash hit, Chicago, when charming lawyer Billy Flynn compares a murder trial to a dazzling, show-stopping circus: 'Give'em a show that's so splendiferous,' he says.
BWW Review: Strawdog's ONCE IN A LIFETIME Offers Up Comedic Nostalgia
For Strawdog Theatre Company's final production in its Broadway home, the company fittingly presents George S.
BWW Review: Porchlight Finds New Moves to Invigorate CHESS
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.
BWW Review: It's a Pleasure Getting to Know Lyric Opera's THE KING AND I
Under the direction of Lee Blakeley at Lyric Opera (who originally staged this production for Paris's Theatre du Chatelet in 2014), Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical THE KING AND I is heightened to the lavish and beautiful spectacle it deserves.
BWW Review: HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES a Confusing Madcap Drama
THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES is a mixed bag of tone and theme.
BWW Review: Sweating Bullets at BULLETS OVER BROADWAY to Little Effect
Woody Allen's film is promising source material for a musical.
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Fleetwood Max Raue Center For The Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Mean Girls Paramount Theatre (8/26-10/11) |
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Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash Raue Center For The Arts (10/24-10/24) |
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The Dave Matthews Tribute Band Raue Center For The Arts (9/25-9/25) |
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Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Memphis The Musical Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25) |
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The Beautiful Game In Concert Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture (8/31-8/31) |
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Come From Away Marriott Theatre (8/26-10/18) |
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Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Cast Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick, Nell Campbell, and Patricia Quinn Chicago Theatre (10/31-10/31) |