Lyric Opera of Chicago A Streetcar Named Desire By André Previn By Lori Dana If we are fortunate, the current revival of this San Francisco Opera production is a harbinger of more contemporary works appearing[…]
Month: March 2013
Maria/Stuart opening @ Theater Wit
Maria/Stuart Everything was going fine, before the shape shifter showed up. Grandma Ruthie’s three tolerably dysfunctional daughters were throwing her a birthday party (including unbalanced Sylvia, with her terrifying hook hands). The kids were coming[…]
Barnum opening @ Mercury Theater
Barnum The greatest show on earth is the setting for the life story of Phineas Taylor Barnum. Celebrating its Chicago professional premiere, BARNUM sets this colorful personality inside the center ring of his own circus.[…]
Catch Me If You Can opening @ Cadillac Palace Theatre
Catch Me If You Can Based on the hit DreamWorks film and the incredible true story that inspired it, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is the high-flying, splashy new Broadway musical that tells the story[…]
Underneath The Lintel opening @ First Folio Theatre
Underneath the Lintel The play focuses on a Dutch librarian who opens a book returned 113 years overdue and finds a ticket for a Chinese laundry in London. Her curiosity compels her to redeem the[…]
A Piece of My Heart opening @ Cornservatory
A Piece of My Heart ARFTCo is proud to present a revival of their successful 2004 production of Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart, a moving and deeply felt portrayal of six women who[…]
Beautiful Broken opening @ Greenhouse Theater Center
Beautiful Broken Paul and Bridgette like each other. So do Matt and Julie. But it’s never that simple, is it? There’s the personal baggage, the crossed signals, the walls and defenses and ghosts of the[…]
Julius Caesar – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill As Julius Caesar closes at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, another production of Julius Caesar opens at Raven Theatre — the latter an all-female production from Babes With Blades Theatre Company. These two[…]
Dawn, Quixote opening @ The Building Stage
Dawn, Quixote The Building Stage is known for adapting and reinventing classic tales, like their 2011 award-winning Moby-Dick. Sticking with tradition, the company updates Miguel de Cervantes’ Spanish Golden Age masterpiece with a fresh[…]
Your Problem With Men opening @ Stage 773
Your Problem With Men Your Problem With Men chronicles the hilarious fall from grace of Asun, a woman who breaks off her engagement because the proposal wasn’t executed the way she always dreamed of– only[…]