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Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Brings Exquisite Craft and Depth to Of Joy

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago closed out season 46 with a program titled Of Joy. Passion, joy, and dancers in peak performance mode were on display much to the audience’s pleasure. […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 19, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Blank Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century Never Reaches Full Steam

    The new production of On the Twentieth Century by Blank Theatre Company, directed by Danny Kapinos, is the latest incarnation of many fabulous versions of this story—on stage and screen. […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 18, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Storefront Theater Roundup: Neo-Futurist’s Cult-Show and Theatre Above the Law’s Prelude to a Kiss

    We review two shows now running in Chicago’s storefront theater scene. Did you know that Chicago has more than 200 theater companies, many of them small and performing in storefronts […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 17, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Frame of Reference Elevates an Already-Popular Story with Gods & Monsters Adaptation in World Premiere Production

    Some properties exist on a Wheel of Fortune spinner of adaptations. The Producers was a movie, then a musical, then a movie. Mean Girls lived the same life. Beetlejuice has […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • May 16, 2024
    • Comedy , Review , Stages

    Review: Does This Review Describe You? If So, You’ll Want to See It’s Hard to Be Hot at Second City

    You’re in your mid-twenties, not a true Millennial or a true Zoomer. All of your dates start on Hinge, and your dog’s anxiety medication costs twice as much as yours […]

  • James Brod
  • May 15, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Porchlight in Concert Brings Broadway Talent and a 40th Anniversary Sondheim Favorite to the Studebaker Theater

    Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre is a standout among a crowded landscape of local production companies. Focused on musical theater, their shows—usually presented at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 15, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: City Lit Stages T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in a Church Sanctuary With a World Premiere Score

    Murder in the Cathedral is a solemn play, drawn from the works of master poet and Nobel-Prize laureate T.S. Eliot. The 1935 verse play is now on stage at City […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 14, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Absurdist and Delightfully Off-Kilter—Hamburgers and Disappointment by Barrie Cole

    I find it strange that much is written about parameters and boundaries in relationships. Of course, there should be boundaries, but who decides what those are? How many people live […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 13, 2024
    • Children's theater , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: In Young People’s Theatre’s Last Stop on Market Street, a Boy Named CJ Learns About Life and Friendship

    Last Stop on Market Street, now being staged by Young People’s Theatre of Chicago, is a children’s story with lively music and song and dance performed by six talented actors. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 13, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, The Thanksgiving Play Fails at Satire, Succeeds at Silliness

    The American theater business and society in general offer plenty of opportunity for criticism of “wokeness” and efforts to satisfy all sides—both in the arts, in other nonprofits and in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 11, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: An Explosive World Premiere Tells a Little-Known Milwaukee Story of Anti-Immigrant Hostility

    A world premiere by Martin Zimmerman chronicles one of Milwaukee’s least-known historical events: the 1917 bombing of a police department and the subsequent indictment of imprisoned Italian immigrants who were […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • May 8, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Judgment Day Is a Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy with Heart

    Jason Alexander makes his Chicago stage debut in the world premiere comedy Judgment Day at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. In The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare through May 26, 2024. Photo by Liz Lauren.

    Sammy (Jason Alexander) and Father Michael (Daniel Breaker) sit in a car with binoculars. It’s dark, and they are on a stakeout outside a bar—anxious to find anything they can […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • May 6, 2024
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