Review: THE BEST OF WOMEN OFF-COLOUR at The Second City
The Best of Women Off-Colour is a fast-paced, carefully curated show that is the perfect blend of race, culture, gender, and politics.…
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Review: & JULIET Presented by Broadway In Chicago
On its second Chicago engagement, & Juliet remains a glittering, joyous confection of a jukebox musical — and this time it features iconic boy band member Joey Fatone…
Review: Raven Theatre's OCTET at Goodman Theatre
I loved Dave Molloy’s inventive and captivating a cappella musical Octet at Raven Theatre so much that here I am, reviewing it a second time in short succession now that it’s moved to the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. Director Keira Fromm leads an ensemble of eight that shines just as brightly in th…
Review: 52 LOVERS at Chicago Magic Lounge
52 Lovers is a thoroughly entertaining, surprisingly introspective, and profoundly motivational show, complete with a dash of subtle absurdist humor, plenty of magical amazement, and all around simple fun.…
Review: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at Catalyst Ranch
Enter a freight elevator off the back alley of Randolph Street and step into the eclectic space that is the Catalyst Ranch Studio, a venue that perfectly sets the tone for JK Entertainment’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by Arlo Kiss and text by John Cameron Mitchell.…
Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre ends its 26th season with an all-time classic, bringing an impressive production of The Wizard of Oz to its stage.…
Review: Gwydion Theatre's DRY POWDER at Greenhouse Theater Center
Dry Powder gives us a bleak glance at the logic and operations that run the American economy and ruin American lives in this fast-paced allegory of how money can corrupt.…
Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Oak Park Festival Theatre, Oak Park IL
Oak Park Festival Theatre continues its 51st Anniversary season with Oscar Wilde’s smashing comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. First produced in 1895, the play is memorable from Wilde’s fast wit and the farcical parody of the English upper class. Oak Park’s production of Earnest, directe…
Review: SUFFS Musical Tour at Broadway In Chicago
All in all, Suffs musical nails the intent and the tremendous hard work of the women involved in the suffrage movement, but it mainly lacks emotion. I wanted Suffs to be more emotionally evocative and less of a history lesson.…
Review: HAMLET at Oak Park Festival Theatre, Oak Park IL
The curtain rises on Oak Park Festival Theatre’s 51st Anniversary Season with the production of William Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy Hamlet. With over 50 years in Austen Gardens, the company presents the play with detail, intelligence, emotion and charm for the audience to enjoy.…
Past Shows
UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE
Shocking when it first premiered in 1989, this Canadian work follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" and one teenager who try to learn...
Last Sunday in June
In 2002, Tolins penned THE LAST SUNDAY IN JUNE. the day of the annual Gay Pride Parade. Tom and Michael, his partner of seven years,...
Buyer & Cellar
In this one-man comedy, Alex More is a struggling actor who takes a job managing a make-believe shopping mall in the basement of Barbra Streisands...
Nominee Night
Showcase of musical theater performers and productions nominated in the 2020 Non-Equity Jeff Awards.....
A Late Snow
A LATE SNOW, written in 1979, is the story of Ellie, a woman trapped in a snowstorm with her first, last, current and, possibly, next...
Lonely Planet
In this often-comedic drama set during the height of the AIDS crisis, Jody is in his forties and runs a map store. Not one for...
Mothers and Sons
Live virtual reading of Terrence McNally's play. 7 pm on Thursday, April 16.Login instructions and password will be provided after purchase.A woman pays an unexpected...
Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist
The American premiere of FIVE ENCOUNTERS ON A SITE CALLED CRAIGSLIST, an Edinburgh Festival hit by the British playwright and actor Samuel Ward. Desperately hilarious...
Stop Kiss
Sara and Callie are walking through New York City's West Village very late at night, when they share their first kiss. This leads to a...
America's Best Outcast Toy
A holiday reality show musical. We all know the story of the outcast toys and how they were rescued from their island by a certain...
The Christmas Foundling
When a baby boy is orphaned in the California Sierras on Christmas Eve, 1850, two curmudgeonly miners agree to raise him. A decade later, the...
Songs from My Holiday Closet
Bookwriter/lyricist Larry Todd Cousineau, whose musicals written with composer Cindy OConnor include the upcoming AMERICAS BEST OUTCAST TOY, this past summers ALL THAT HE WAS,...
A Man of No Importance
A musical adaptation by the Tony Award-winning writers of RAGTIME and ANASTASIA of the 1994 film that starred Albert Finney. Alfie Byrne is a bus...
Movie Queens
Former Hollywood starlets and secret lovers reunite 50 years after the height of their career to make their Broadway debut. Sharing the stage with their...
SAPPHIC SWITCHEROO
A night of scenes from classical comedies performed by all-female casts. Scenes will be taken from AS YOU LIKE IT, LYSISTRATA, SIR PATIENT FANCY, THE...
THE QUEENS FOOL: A QUEER FAIRYTALE
When the Queen, unable to fall asleep, sends for a fool to amuse her she is given more then she bargains for. A surprisingly heartfelt...
Simply Sensarional
Pride Films and Plays' annual fall benefit, SIMPLY SENSATIONAL, celebrates theater artists who have had a tremendous impact on all they work with. This years...
Lethal Woman
A robbery at the art museum prompts venerated cop Taz to take on The Case of the Missing Cream Pitcher! Hijinks and a fair number...
LezFest
LEZFEST, the popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists. Performances will cover an eclectic range of disciplines ranging from...
Casa Valentina
CASA VALENTINA is set in 1962, in an inconspicuous bungalow colony in New Yorks Catskill Mountains that caters to a very special clientele: cis-gender straight...
All That He Was
The musical ALL THAT HE WAS is a moving and surprisingly funny account of one mans struggle with AIDS and the reverberations of his death....
Afterglow
Josh and Alex are a gay male married couple in an open relationship. The two invite another man, Darius, to share their bed one night....
GRINDR The Opera
GRINDR The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop,...
Desire in a Tinier House
It only takes three seconds for Trevin and Carlos to lock eyes. But how many minutes, months, millennia will it take for them to remain...
Southern Comfort
In this heartwarming musical with a lush folk/bluegrass score, Robert, a transgender man living in rural Georgia among his chosen family of mostly transgender friends,...
I Know My Own Heart
Inspired by the secret coded diaries of Yorkshire gentlewoman Anne Lister, this play subverts all the conventions of Regency romance. Teasing out the entangled lives...
Barney the Elf
Chicago drag queen sensation Dixie Lynn Cartwright again takes the lead for this cheeky musical twist on the modern holiday fave about "embracing your inner...
LezFest
The popular and ever-evolving interdisciplinary program of performance by queer female and non-binary artists, will return for its eighth session on Sunday, December 16. Previously...
It's Only a Play
An hilarious send-up of show business and its often-bizarre practitioners, which uses the occasion of a disastrous opening night party to pile one wildly funny...
Mothers and Sons
A woman pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, who is now married to another man and has...
Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams
Staged reading of the Terrence McNally play. A couple run a children's theatre in a mall in upstate New York. With the possibility of taking...
Homos, or Everyone in America
“Love is love” – but is navigating it any less complicated today? What does it mean to be in a committed relationship? Is monogamy just...
It's Been a F*cking Year
Life is a rollercoaster of emotions, a whirlwind of events. Who would have thought that the last 365 days could hold so much? First love,...
The Green Bay Tree
A charming young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancée, the lifestyle of his male mentor, and the prescription of his...
Resolution
New Years' Eve, New York City, 1892. High-society husband and wife Jack and Hannah make their resolutions for the coming year -- but when their...
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Disney's The Little Mermaid The Performing Arts Center (7/18-8/02) |
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Disney's The Little Mermaid Uptown Music Theater Highland Park (7/18-8/02) |
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EWP presents Robbie Fulks & Griffin William Sherry Showcase Raue Center For The Arts (8/07-8/07) |
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The Dave Matthews Tribute Band Raue Center For The Arts (9/25-9/25) |
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Catalyst Ranch (7/09-8/02) |
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Lee Brice Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater (7/30-7/30) |
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Good People By David Lindsay-Abaire 4 Chairs Theatre (7/17-8/23) PHOTOS |
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Fleetwood Max Raue Center For The Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07) |
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GreenRoom Improv Raue Center For The Arts (9/05-9/05) |