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Review: Joffrey’s World Premiere Boléro Shines on the Small Screen, Despite Technical Missteps

In this brave new normal, ballet premieres come while you’re sitting alone on your couch, instead of in a glittering theater gathered with hundreds of other balletomanes breathlessly awaiting. Perhaps nowadays you […]

  • Angela Allyn
  • March 1, 2021
    • Review , Stages , Virtual

    Review: Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue, Newly Cooked Up for Our Virtual World

    Robert O’Hara’s funny, snarky familyish drama Barbecue was staged by Strawdog Theatre in 2017 in Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre. It’s set in a public park where four siblings, led by one […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 12, 2020
    • Front page , Review

    Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/30 and Beyond

    Chicago has been letting businesses reopen their doors for quite a while now. So if you’re going to a drive-in  movie (like Chicago Drive In, Drive-in at Lincoln Yards Lot, […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • July 30, 2020
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Virtual Travel, Virtual Theater:  Irish Rep Streams Moving Production of Friel’s Molly Sweeney

      When I’m in New York, I always make it a point to see the current production at Irish Repertory Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood, one of the best off-Broadway […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 13, 2020
    • Preview , Review , Stages , Theater

    Chicago Theaters Go Virtual During the Virus; Goodman Streams School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

    In these “AC,” After COVID, times, Chicago theaters are offering online content to fill the gap of canceled shows and in-person instruction (as well as the yawning expanse of endless […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 26, 2020
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Steppenwolf’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Is Nearly Perfect

    I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a pretty perfect play, full of youthful exuberance and teen angst, righteous anger and pure joy, and seasoned with tacos and horchata, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 4, 2020
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: National Book Award-Winner Middle Passage Adrift On Stage

    Lifeline Theatre presents Dr. Charles Johnson’s 1990 National Book Award winner Middle Passage, directed by Ilesa Duncan, who co-adapted with David Barr III. The result struggles from the page to […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 1, 2020
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: The Hilary Duff Project Nails the Nostalgic Sendup with Talent to Spare

    Nostalgia is a hot commodity lately, likely due to the rather dismal present and threat of an even more dire future. Taking a look back at simpler times can be […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • February 13, 2020
    • Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: Lyric Opera Revisits a Timeless, Thrilling Classic in Madama Butterfly

    The Lyric Opera of Chicago first presented Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in 1955 (it made its world premiere in 1904); the version on stage there now (through March 8) is a revival […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • February 9, 2020
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Jane Austen’s Classic Emma Gets a Delightful Musical Adaptation at Chicago Shakes

    Later this month, a new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma will open in cinemas, starring Anya Taylor-Joy (Thoroughbreds, “Peaky Blinders”) as the titular matchmaker with questionable, if endearing, motives. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • February 7, 2020
    • Dance , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Jump and Jive for Joy at Porchlight’s Sophisticated Ladies

    Can there be a show stopper when the show never stops? Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies sings, dances and plays its way through the king of all’s […]

  • Bob Benenson
  • January 31, 2020
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Court Theatre’s The Mousetrap Proves a Timelessly Enjoyable Murder Mystery

    The Mousetrap

    Perhaps best known as the longest-running play ever (notching north of 28,000 performances and counting), Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been continuously on stage in London’s West End since 1952. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 27, 2020
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