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Review: Haven’s Kiss Threads the Needle Between Soap Opera and Wartime

Images on the television screen. No sound. We’re in a living room in Damascus in 2014. Four people gather to watch their favorite soap opera. (Syrians love telenovelas.) The two […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 25, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Magical Wolf Play at Gift Theatre Will Make You Think and Break Your Heart

    It sounds like a sad story. A couple adopts a child from another country, then decides “it’s not a good fit” and decides to un-adopt him. But if I tell […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 24, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: In Black Button Eyes’ Ghost Quartet, Comedy and Tragedy Span Four Centuries

    Black Button Eyes Productions staged my favorite musical of the year, Evil Dead the Musical, and when I saw Ghost Quartet and its description I jumped at the opportunity to see it. I […]

  • James Brod
  • July 23, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Roast, It’s the Comrades’ Idea for Your Funeral Planning

    Roast is a world premiere and a credible first play by Northwestern alum Harry Wood, produced by the Comrades. It’s often funny and occasionally poignant, even though the structure of […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 23, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: The Drag Seed Is a Campy, Delightful World Premiere From Hell in a Handbag

    “I’ve seen better acting in a Hallmark Original Christmas movie,” one character says to another—and in the world of Hell in a Handbag’s wickedly funny new play The Drag Seed, […]

  • Matthew Nerber
  • July 23, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Wizard of Oz Brings Family Classic Film to Life

    By Katie Priest As many people’s first introduction to the world of Chicago theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater never fails to produce a memorable performance. The Wizard of Oz is one […]

  • Guest Author
  • July 22, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Pomona at Steep Theatre Tells a Sci-Fi Horror Story

    Zeppo (Peter Moore) is driving around the ring road in Manchester, eating Chicken McNuggets (he buys ’em by the hundred) and reeling off the entire plot of Raiders of the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 20, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: True West, a True Time Capsule at Steppenwolf Theatre

    The play that launched Chicago’s lauded ensemble returns to the substantially larger stage for the first time since 1982. Sam Shepard’s True West propelled the Highland Park High School and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • July 18, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Windy City Playhouse Forces the Experience at The Recommendation

    The Recommendation

    Last year, Windy City Playhouse launched a bona-fide hit with Southern Gothic, the immersive theater experience set in the early 1960s where audiences were “invited” to a birthday party among friends, […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 16, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Goodman’s The Music Man Proves A Classic Story With Timeless Songs

    The Music Man

    The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical this year went to Daniel Fish’s stripped-down, timely interpretation of Oklahoma!, a Rodgers & Hammerstein classic that first opened on Broadway […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 10, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Love and Acceptance Star in Kokandy Productions’ Head Over Heels

    By Guest Author Katie Priest Kokandy Productions’ Chicago premiere of Head Over Heels opened last weekend to a full house, just six months after the conclusion of its Broadway run. […]

  • Guest Author
  • July 9, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home Weaves a Love Story of Poetry, Music and Technology

    Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home is a magical play about poetry and technology, tinged with tragedy. Ada Byron Lovelace was the daughter of the famous poet, a man […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 25, 2019
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