CHICAGO THEATER REVIEWS

BroadwayWorld review's Rebecca Gilman's new play, 'Luna Gale' at Goodman Theatre....

'Solstice,' especially when interpreted with as much depth and heart as A Red Orchid's current production, is excellent fodder for play-analysts' theses and leaves its audience with just as much material for post-play discussion....

Review of Steppenwolf Theatre's 'Tribes.'...

About Face Theatre's 'We Three Lizas' has the right mix of holiday heart and camp...

Most theater companies try to mount something during the holiday season. And so it is that the powers that be at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, that most storefront of all of the Chicago area non-Equity musical theater companies, has mounted a clever idea and unique holiday entertainment called "A Ver...

BroadwayWorld reviews The Ruffians' 'Burning Bluebeard,' playing at Theater Wit through January 5th, 2014....

'Wicked' flies back into the Oriental Theatre --the site of its historic three-and-a-half year, box office-breaking sit down....

BroadwayWorld reviews the National Tour of 'We Will Rock You' in Chicago....

The first national tour of Tony-award winning 'Once' is extraordinary theater....

Karen Janes Woditsch reprises her celebrated 2010 off-Loop role of chef, author and TV personality Julia Child in a not-to-be-missed show....

Review of the Chicago stop of the National Tour of 'Evita.'...

BroadwayWorld Chicago reviews Teatro Vista's WHITE TIE BALL....

'Double Trouble,' Porchlight's first offering of the season is a major misfire filled with wasted talent....

A look at a few cast recordings of recent Chicago-originated musicals....

You know you are in for some truly great singing when a featured soloist knocks it out of the park....

Oakbrook Terrace's Drury Lane Theatre takes a gamble that pays off with the poignant and moving 'next to normal'...

The summer sun doesn't have anything on Rogers Park theatre troupe Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. The group's latest, the musical revue 'A Cole Porter Songbook' puts plenty of sizzle into the summer and has now been extended through Sept. 15....

The stage version of the movie musical about a steel town girl has a few sparks, but is in need better original tunes before it takes flight...

I hardly know where to begin with this review of the Bohemian Theatre Ensemble's gutsy, stripped-down and yet somehow epic production of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” the musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally that is running at Theatre Wit through June 30, 2013. There, I guess I ju...

Now through June 2, 2013, at the Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana (and not as far away as you might think) is a new play that gives us an interesting look into the making of one of the most enduring work of art produced by Hollywood in its Golden Age of Movie Musicals, the 1952 classic MGM ...

'Big Fish' offers visual sights and sounds to capture the audience hook, line and sinker....

Running almost every Wednesday through Sunday between now and April 21, 2013, is a world premiere musical that is certainly worth seeing. It's "Under A Rainbow Flag," with book, music and lyrics by Chicagoan Leo Schwartz, and based on the recollections of the now 91-year-old Jon Phillips, living in ...

Playing now through April 21, 2013 at the No Exit Cafe in Rogers Park, and officially opening yesterday, the rarely seen Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 'Aspects of Love' has been very competently mounted by the consistently high-quality storefront non-Equity company, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. And th...

At 60, Rigby shows no signs of slowing down in a role she has been playing off and on for the last four decades...

In the Paramount's production, directed and choregraphed by Rachel Rockwell, the show lives and breathes in the very music that a con man and flim-flam artist, "Professor Harold Hill," uses to sell band instruments, uniforms and instruction booklets to the parents of young boys he knows he cannot re...