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Review: Citadel Theatre’s A Jukebox for the Algonquin Offers Broad Laughs and a Big Heart

Paul Stroili’s A Jukebox for the Algonquin, currently onstage at Citadel Theatre, does not take place anywhere near the famous literary watering hole. Instead, everything happens in a recreation room […]

  • Susan Lieberman
  • April 23, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    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 […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 20, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Parsons Dance Returns with a Funhouse of Dance, Smoke, and Mirrors

    Parsons Dance rolled into town last weekend after being away for 30 years. The company was founded in 1985 by artistic director and choreographer David Parsons. The advertising promised an […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 15, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Victory Gardens Stages Henry Johnson, a New David Mamet Drama About a Simple Man Who Fails…at Everything

    This is a review of a new play by David Mamet…. Although any mention of David Mamet today can turn into something else entirely. For instance, how many playwrights attract […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 15, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Writers Theatre, Brian Friel’s Translations Is Full of Heart

    Full Cast of TRANSLATIONS at Writers Theatre. Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow

    Yolland (Erik Hellman) and Maire (Tyler Meredith) have left the dance and come running into the clearing. As they try to catch their breath, they realize they are still holding […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • April 14, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Book of Grace—Beautifully Acted but a Mixed Bag at Steppenwolf Theatre

    Suzan-Lori Parks is known for writing plays about the inner lives of Black Americans. The Book of Grace is a companion to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, where brothers Lincoln and Booth live out […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 8, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Review , Stages

    Review: Giordano Dance Chicago’s Soaring Is a Magical Journey of Life, Love, and Celebration

    Giordano Dance Chicago is our homegrown ensemble, and their Friday performance was unlike any other Giordano show I have covered. Soaring: Life, Light, and Legacy is a tribute to artistic director Nan […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 6, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    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 […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 3, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    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 […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 3, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Benny Bingo & the Evangelikids Is an H-E-Double Hockey Sticks of a Good Time at Annoyance Theatre

    Any child who grew up in a household where Zoom was considered too scandalous probably spent their limited TV time watching shows in which a cast of precocious kids—accompanied by […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • April 3, 2025
    • Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: The Lyric Opera Sharpens the Cutting Edge with The Listeners

    The Lyric Opera of Chicago is refreshing classical music by bringing in newer works. The Listeners is written by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek based on the […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 1, 2025
    • Music , Pop/Rock , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Sunny Afternoon at Chicago Shakes Is a Rock and Roll Fantasy

    They were the most English of British Invasion bands. While other English musicians adopted American styles and turned their backs on their own musical traditions, the Kinks doubled down, writing […]

  • June Sawyers
  • March 31, 2025
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