Disney’s Beauty and the Beast The romantic Broadway musical for all generations, NETworks presentation of DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the smash hit Broadway musical, returns to Chicago! Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature[…]
Month: June 2011
The Untangling At The Junction opening @ Prop Theatre
The Untangling At The Junction The Untangling at the Junction is a multi-disciplined performance about a queer woman wrestling with returning to Islam. Thru – Jul 7, 2011 Thursdays 7:30pm (June 30 & July 7)[…]
A Girl With Sun In Her Eyes opening @ Second Stage Theatre
A Girl With Sun In Her Eyes A Girl With Sun In Her Eyes is a riveting re-invention of the police procedural. It’s 6 am and an undercover female police officer has been reported missing[…]
The Outgoing Tide – REVIEW
CLOSING WEEK – DON’T MISS! By Venus Zarris Northlight Theatre presents an extraordinary world premiere of playwright Bruce Graham’s compelling and challenging play, The Outgoing Tide. Director BJ Jones crafts a powerful production from start[…]
The List (La Liste), an Inventory of Excellence @ IVP
Photo Essay and Feature by Venus Zarris On June 27, 2011, the International Voices Project, in collaboration with The Consulate General of Canada in Chicago, presented yet another dynamic U. S. Premiere staged reading at[…]
Women Are Crazy Because Men Are Assholes opening @ Mercury Theater
Women Are Crazy Because Men Are Assholes Five couples come together for brunch to celebrate Nicole finally meeting Dylan after a two month long internet courting. This is the last reasonable thing any of them[…]
Hunchback Variations Opera Fundraising Event!
Hunchback Variations Opera Fundraising Event! That’s right, not kidding, an opera. The libretto’s from The Hunchback Variations by playwright Mickle Maher (The Strangerer, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, etc), and the music —[…]
Cirque du Soleil – OVO opening @ United Center
Cirque du Soleil – OVO OVO is a headlong rush into a colourful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy[…]
The Women opening @ Circle Theatre
The Women Sharpen your manicured claws, this could get messy. It’s the 1930’s and Mary Haines has just discovered that her husband is having an affair with a shop girl. Assisted by her socialite girlfriends,[…]
Let X opening @ Strawdog Theatre
Let X Let X is a hysterical 90 minute struggle with reality and the understanding that sometimes the only way to get back on track is to completely lose control. David, a train conductor and[…]