The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Chicago.
Though THE COLOR PURPLE has a fair share of tragedy, the ending is heartwarming, celebratory, and puts a pin in Celie’s story — and with Brittney Mack at the lead, this musical makes that range of emotions land.
This is the premise of the current production at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre.
The current production at Drury Lane Theatre is Always…Patsy Cline.
Noah Diaz’s YOU WILL GET SICK is an affecting and unusual play.
In a show that was part memoir, part love letter, and part stand-up comedy special, Liz Callaway paid tribute to the genius of the late Stephen Sondheim in an intimate performance that truly felt like a homecoming celebration for this Chicago native.
This 1972 musical written by Roger O.
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IRAQ, BUT FUNNY serves not only as a masterful satire of British and American colonialism in the Middle East but also as a moving, multigenerational family drama.
KIMBERLY AKIMBO is as oddball of a musical as its name.
“What makes a man try to fly in a lawn chair?” is 42 BALLOONS most repeated lyric.
The final production of the Joffrey Ballet season is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
DIANA THE MUSICAL, the ill-fated Broadway musical about the former Princess of Wales (a filmed version of which was one of the top “hate-watching”programs on Netflix last year) is enjoying its Midwest debut at Theo Ubique.
Despite a few growing pains and a rushed finale, SWEET CHARITY is a great vehicle for the cast’s charming female lead and further evidence that Blank attracts some of the best young musical talent in the city while pushing the envelope of what Chicago storefront theater can accomplish.
Jordan Harrison’s new play THE ANTIQUITIES asks the question, “What does it mean to be human?” It opens with two museum curators inviting the audience to tour a museum displaying relics from the late human era.
The newest production – and it is new in every way – at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora is Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s all-Chicago production of Lolita Chakrabarti’s HYMN is beautifully performed, but the script never quite delivers on the thematic complexity promised by the play’s premise.
Zora Howard’s BUST: AN AFROCURRENTIST PLAY opens with a mystery.
The beginning of Puck’s final monologue in William Shakespeare’s much loved and performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
These are lyrics from the song The Blame sung by Captain E.
Now in its Chicago-area premiere, Joshua Harmon’s Tony-nominated sprawling and ambitious PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC is a searing and inquisitive look at contemporary Judaism and anti-Semitism.
I usually appreciate when plays show and don’t tell, but THE BOOK OF GRACE really needs more exposition.
Near, far, wherever you are…you need to see TITANIQUE if you love musicals and parody.
If you enjoy the music of The Kinks, you’ll enjoy SUNNY AFTERNOON.
IT’S BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE EVERYBODY DIED misses the mark on both scares and astute social commentary, but through no fault of its talented and refreshingly diverse cast.
The newest production at the Copley Theatre in Aurora is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03) |
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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 Christmas Carol Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03) |
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Topdog/Underdog Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater (9/17-11/01) |
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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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When We Were Young and Unafraid Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29) |
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Sinatra '56 - Songs for Young Lovers Epiphany Center for the Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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A Midsummer Night Scream The Greenhouse Theater (9/25-11/01) |
