Review: Cynthia Erivo at Ravinia Defies Gravity
It’s storm season these days, with summer squalls and August tempests hitting town with blustery regularity. But a cyclone of a different sort blew into Ravinia last Friday night, when […]
Doug Mose grew up on a farm in western Illinois, and moved to the big city to go to grad school. He lives with his husband Jim in Printers Row. When he’s not writing for Third Coast Review, Doug works as a business writer.
Review: Broadway Luminaries Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara Shine Bright at Ravinia
Unless you are a theater nerd (guilty) or above a “certain age” (ahem, also guilty), you may not know that before they were global mega-stars, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett […]
Review: Goodman Theatre’s The Color Purple Paints by the Numbers
The energy in the Goodman Theatre’s larger Albert Theatre was palpable even before Monday’s premiere of The Color Purple began, and it built upon itself as the evening progressed towards […]
Review: Liz Callaway’s To Steve With Love Celebrates Sondheim at the Studebaker Theater
Liz Callaway came home last night to deliver a love letter. Not a private note, but a public tribute on the Studebaker Theater stage, where she sang the works of […]
Review: Chicago Shakespeare’s 42 Balloons Is Lighter-Than-Air Entertainment
Move over, Marilyn McCoo… step aside, Nena… there’s a new balloon song in the air. A whole bunch of ’em, actually, at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where they’re producing the […]
Review: Northlight and Theater Wit Join Hands for a Powerful Prayer for the French Republic
“For not only one enemy has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us….” That stark bit of liturgy—the V’hi She’amdah—is […]
Review: Porchlight’s Titanique Sparkles Like That Diamond (You Know the One)
Not since gin and vermouth first met ice has any cocktail sparkled so purely, so perfectly, so powerfully as Porchlight Theatre’s crazy collision with a fateful iceberg, Titanique, now running […]
Review: Onstage Talent Battles Backstage Bungles in Dreamgirls at the Studebaker Theater
Last December, Seven Thirty Theatre and Katydid Productions presented a production of Dreamgirls—the great American musical about the Motown experience—at the Studebaker Theater. The show was well received and so […]
Review: Ghosts in the Shadow Box—Manual Cinema’s A Christmas Carol
Has there ever been a more frequently adapted story than Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol? From Reginald Owen and Alastair Sim down to George C. Scott, Albert Finney, Patrick […]
Dialogs: Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller at the Chicago Humanities Festival—a Celebration of Somebody, Somewhere
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Review: Kokandy’s Into the Woods Depicts a Marvelous Forest, Bumps Into a Few Trees
This review offers some tough love. Love for Kokandy Productions, for its ambitions and scope, for its actors and musicians. But I’m also going to add a tough critique for […]
Review: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein— Beautiful Handmade Horror
Something very wonderful is on stage at the Studebaker Theater this pre-Halloween weekend. A haunting affair, one part horror and another strange beauty, the Chicago-based Emmy-award-winning performance collective Manual Cinema […]