Burying Miss America By Brian Golden Directed by Jessica Hutchinson Boxer and Jean, the children of Nebraska’s first and only Miss America, are reunited after years apart when their legendary mother unexpectedly dies. Divided by[…]
Month: September 2011
Splatter Theater opening @ Annoyance Theatre
Splatter Theater A parody of Friday the 13th type movies, the characters in “Splatter Theater” include such archetypes as a nun, the school jock, the virgin, the class dick, and of course the bumbling old[…]
Tea at Five – REVIEW
By Venus Zarris Katharine Hepburn transcends movie royalty. She is the embodiment of cinematic iconography. Her look, her voice, her very presence is legendary. She still holds the record with four Oscars, and twelve Oscar[…]
The Amish Project – REVIEW
EXTENDED through October 30! By Venus Zarris Five years ago a man walked into an Amish school in Pennsylvania with a gun. He told the boys and the adults to leave and boarded up the[…]
Becky Shaw opening @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Becky Shaw By Gina Gionfriddo A Chicago Premiere Directed by Damon Kiely Featuring Ensemble Members Lance Baker, Jennifer Engstrom and Mierka Girten Sharp wit and shifting moral ground play out with the taut suspense of[…]
Red opening @ Goodman Theatre
Red Full-blooded and visceral, the Tony Award-winning Red is a journey into the mind of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, for whom paintings are “pulsating” life forces and art is intended to stop the heart. Red[…]
Pussy On The House opening @ Athenaeum Theatre
Pussy On The House Ryan Landry’s Pussy on the House takes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and turns it upside-down and sideways into a tale of languid melodrama, gut busting laughter, and oh so[…]
The Amish Project opening @ American Theater Company
The Amish Project EXTENDED through October 30! Nickel Mines. 2006. Five years ago, a thirty-year old man walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse and opened fire, killing 5 girls and himself. In a decision that[…]
Lyric Opera Launches Exciting Season & Bold Initiatives ~ LONG LIVE PASSION
By Lori Dana On Saturday, September 10, Lyric Opera of Chicago presented its now traditional “Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park” free concert , the official kick-off of the opera season. Each year[…]
Mourning Becomes Electra opening @ The Greenhouse Theatre Center
Mourning Becomes Electra We plunge into the season with O’Neill’s classic American tragedy based on The Oresteia. Desperate to free herself from her marriage and the clutches of the Mannon family curse, Christine has taken[…]