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Tapped Tap Dances a Satire on Surveillance Society, Sluggishly

Tapped, a Treasonous Musical Comedy, is a frothy approach to political satire, featuring tap dancing spies and snitches, a six-piece live band, and songs with refrains like “Everybody loves a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 13, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    City Lit’s Hauptmann Tells Tense Story of Another “Trial of the Century”

      Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the “baby killer,” the man tried, convicted and executed for the 1932 kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby, is vividly personified by George Seegebrecht in City […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 9, 2016
    • Comedy , Stages , Theater

    Tim Crouch Exacts Hilarious Revenge in Meta I, Malvolio

    The Beginning: Tim Crouch in/as I, Malvolio. Photo by Bruce Atherton British actor and playwright Tim Crouch gives audiences a hysterical new perspective on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night through the solo lens of […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 6, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Steppenwolf Stages Constellations, a Story of Love, Bees and Theoretical Physics

    Constellations, the new two-character play at Steppenwolf Theatre, is certainly a nonlinear story. Marianne (Jessie Fisher) and Roland (Jon Michael Hill) at times seem to be in parallel universes. She, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 6, 2016
    • Stages , Theater , Theater Festival , Uncategorized

    CST Stages Mash-up of Shakespeare’s Bellicose History in Tug of War: Foreign Fire

    Song montage of “Once I Was a Soldier” by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett. Photo by Liz Lauren. From the get-go in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s limited run, six-hour marathon mash-up Tug […]

  • Karin McKie
  • June 1, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Irish Theatre’s Spinning Portrays Tragedy in a Seaside Village

    The struggles of single parenthood and the dread of losing a child cause the worlds of Conor (Dan Waller) and Susan (Jodi Kingsley) to spin out of control in the tense […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 30, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    The Body of an American at Stage Left Theatre: Two Men Haunted by the Ghosts of War

    The Body of an American at Stage Left Theatre is a fact-based play haunted by visions of war and the ghosts that lurk in its shadows. Canadian war reporter/photographer Paul […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 23, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook: Talented Crew of Actors/Musicians Tells Tragic Chicago Story

    [soliloquy id=”4686″] Photos by Evan Hanover. Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook takes us on a visit to a tragic but inspiring moment in Chicago history and does it with a bang-up […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 20, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Not Entirely Enchanted by Broadway in Chicago’s Disenchanted

    What happens after the fairytale ends and the slender beauty runs off with the prince she met moments before the wedding? Naturally, it’s worse than what the magic mirror predicted. […]

  • Andrea Palm
  • May 19, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Schoolhouse Rock Live!: Where History and Grammar Rules Converge

    Seeing that Schoolhouse Rock Live! was currently playing in Chicago, I instantly wanted in on this nostalgic musical journey. Though the show at the Apollo Theater in partnership with Emerald […]

  • Sarah Brooks
  • May 19, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    A Tree Falls in About Face’s The Secretaries, & Everyone Hears It

    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 […]

  • Lauren Garcia
  • May 18, 2016
    • Comedy , Stages , Theater

    Neo-Futurists’ Mike Mother Filters Family Secrets Via Fiction and Memoir

    Squeaky-voiced Neo-Futurist Jessica Anne (no last name for a reason to be revealed) has created and performs a provoking mash-up of memoir and performance art, a solo show, with two […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 18, 2016
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