Richard III CST Artistic Director Barbara Gains opens the season with this epic history of Shakespeare’s most fascinating villain. Fueled by a relentless ambition and savage wit, the hunchbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester, seduces and[…]
Month: September 2009
Hairspray opening @ Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire
Hairspray From the tip-top of its super teased coif, to the bottom of its dynamic dancing toes, “You Can’t Stop the Beat” of this Broadway musical comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and[…]
12 Ophelias: A Play With Broken Songs – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris A few weeks ago I was talking to a dear friend who shared with me an amazing Internet find, something that almost caused his brain to explode. It is a video entitled[…]
Animal Crackers – REVIEW
EXTENDED THROUGH NOVEMBER 1! By J. Scott Hill I have a favorite picture of myself when I was little, maybe six years old. I had tried to use black electrical tape to give myself Groucho’s eyebrows[…]
Treasure Island – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris Pirates are in. Johnny Depp has almost singlehandedly created a renewed wave of obsessive interest in these menacing marauders of the open seas with his creation of the eccentric Captain Jack Sparrow[…]
The Thin Man – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris Drinking, sophistication, drinking, wisecracking, drinking, intrigue, drinking, criminal investigation, and drinking fill the privileged lives of Nick and Nora Charles in Dashiell Hammet’s classic camp The Thin Man detective novels. Much to[…]
Man of La Mancha – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill President Kennedy endeavored to turn the Cold War into the Space Race, by rallying his fellow Americans to take on the impossible task of landing people on the Moon. In 1969[…]
Animal Crackers opening @ The Goodman Theatre
Animal Crackers Hooray for Captain Spaulding! When a celebrated sculpture goes missing from Mrs. Rittenhouse’s fancy house party in honor of African explorer Captain Spaulding, her guests set out to find the thief in a[…]
St. Crispin’s Day opening @ Strawdog Theatre
St. Crispin’s Day Set on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, St. Crispin’s Day follows Shakespeare’s famous characters, Bardolph and Pistol as they attempt to alter history and overthrow England’s King Henry V. Kevin[…]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opening @ Court Theatre
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Court Theatre returns to August Wilson’s Century Cycle, with the 1920s entry–his only play to be set on the South Side of Chicago. A recording session for blues legend Ma Rainey[…]