By Venus Zarris Infamous Commonwealth Theatre opens their season dedicated to REDEMPTION with a strong production of Arthur Miller’s classic The Crucible. Miller’s scathing social, religious and thinly veiled political indictment still packs a gut[…]
Month: March 2010
The Cabinet – REVIEW #2
*Just in time for the announced EXTENSION of Redmoon Theater’s brilliant The Cabinet and just in case you didn’t hear us the first time, here’s a second review of this beguiling hit!* The Cabinet EXTENDED through[…]
Magical Exploding Boy – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris My best friend is perhaps one of the most loving, calm and altruistic persons that I have ever known. He is the adoring father of two young girls, a Chicago Fireman and[…]
Resurrection Blues opening @ The Greenhouse Theatre Center
Resurrection Blues High in the mountains of an unnamed dictatorship, a revolution is brewing. When the rebels’ messiah-like leader is captured, an American production company purchases the rights to televise his sentence: death by crucifixion.[…]
The Lost Boys of Sudan opening @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
The Lost Boys of Sudan A.I. Josh, T-Mac Sam and K-Gar Ollie all meet in the worst way: fleeing the horrors of war. And as they team up on a perilous journey to a refugee[…]
A Life opening @ Northlight Theatre
A Life In the sequel to the late Hugh Leonard’s most celebrated work, Da, John Mahoney stars in this evocative play about the evolution of friendships in a small Irish town. Desmond Drumm nears retirement[…]
After, Life opening @ Apollo Theater
After, Life After, Life is the darkly comic story of Kevin and Michelle, recently deceased, who are picking up where their lives left off. After the car accident in which Michelle killed Kevin, or maybe[…]
Rickie Lee Jones @ Lincoln Hall – CONCERT REVIEW
Review & Photo Essay By Venus Zarris The biggest reaction that I received over the past week when mentioning that I was going to see Rickie Lee Jones in concert at Lincoln Hall was, “I[…]
Magical Exploding Boy opening @ Next Theatre
Magical Exploding Boy Darkly comical and completely wordless this one-person show reaches beyond the limits of language to turn the conventions of Mime and Clown on their heads. From a child with mind control powers,[…]
“Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus” NOW PLAYING @ The Actors Gymnasium
Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus Directed by Larry DiStasi The Actors Gymnasium presents Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus, running March 13 – April 18, 2010. This acrobatic adventure into the world of mad[…]