Before there was a film rendition, a sitcom, an animated sitcom featuring a cat and a dog, a revival sitcom featuring the 1980s, and finally yet another sitcom featuring Chandler Bing from Friends, there was a Neil Simon play known…
Hello. My name is Lauren Elyse, and I cook for fun. And now I write a series about Chicagoans who write books about cooking for fun. Every season, I will be focusing on a new cookbook/Chicagoan chef, and then I’ll…
There are few things in life that I am comfortable in saying make complete sense: the science behind the salty-sweetness of a chocolate-covered pretzel, the inevitable success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, and the effects of the cotton gin on America’s…
Hello. My name is Lauren Elyse, and I cook for fun. And now I write about Chicagoans who write books about cooking for fun. Confused? Follow me. Let me take you to the promised land. But before I do, I’ll…
What if we lived in a world where presidential elections weren’t such shit shows? Hear me out. Imagine there were many worlds very different from our own – even civil, perhaps – where George Washington never died and never lied, Atticus Finch…
We are at an ideal time to be making a social commentary on the male perspective. That’s right – the male perspective, the very perspective that has idealized femininity since kingdom come, be it via bound feet in Asia or…
There’s a special form of resentment I and the rest of working class America feel about restaurant jobs. Yeah, you know exactly what I’m talking about: coming home from work smelling as if you were delivered from the loins of…
Look: No one wants to be the person who says that Heathers: The Musical works. You shouldn’t be able to take a cult classic movie, throw in a few snappy songs and the quote “my teen-angst bullshit has a body…
There are many reasons why one would want to root for Broadway in Chicago’s If For one, it’s not a riff on, say, a ’90s Disney film or Andrew Lloyd Webber or anything resembling the already-established brands that Broadway producers…
If you had a sinking suspicion that, hey, maybe Tympanic Theatre Company’s Blueberry Toast is not about fruity breads and Eggo waffles and a celebration of domestic bliss over an IKEA table and the musical stylings of The Carpenters, well,…
How do you take a cloyingly overused plot line and make it feel less decayed, more relevant, and, above all, interesting? That’s what Porchlight Music Theatre’s Far From Heaven attempts to resuscitate in their current production. And that’s precisely what…
One may allegedly be the loneliest number, but at the Greenhouse Theater Center, Artistic Director Jacob Harvey would like to argue that it also makes for one hell of a fine show. In preparation for their upcoming 7-month Solo Celebration! honoring any…
“Do you really believe in 100 years, people will be talking about Sherlock?” Says Michael Aaron Lindner as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man behind the sleuth who is tired of dealing with his ever-popular Sherlock Holmes and would rather…
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