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Review: See, Feel, Hear and Touch The Who’s Tommy at Goodman Theatre

Poet Maya Angelou suffered violence and didn’t speak for years. Tommy Walker witnessed murder and similarly shut down his senses…

  • Karin McKie
  • June 29, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Visit the “Adult Sesame Street” with a 20th Anniversary Production of Avenue Q 

Have you ever wanted to witness a Muppet make the beast with two backs? Do a deep dive into getting…

  • Karin McKie
  • March 13, 2023
  • Review, Stages, Theater

Review: West Side Story at Marriott Lincolnshire Features a Formidable Cast and a Few Missteps

I love a good evening out at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. For years now, they’ve put on top notch…

  • Marielle Bokor
  • February 14, 2022
  • Review, Stages, Theater

Review: Take a Trip to Memphis in Porchlight’s Latest Hit

Memphis

Perhaps the best compliment I can pay to Memphis, the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical now on at…

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 2, 2018
  • Review, Stages, Theater

Review: Ingredients Don’t Add Up to Much for Refuge Theatre Project’s The Spitfire Grill

Spitfire Grill

Founded in 2014, the relatively new Refuge Theatre Project aspires to bring musical theater to creative spaces, accessible to broad…

  • Lisa Trifone
  • April 3, 2018
  • Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review: Brie Larson Can’t Save Subpar Basmati Blues

Basmati Blues Brie Larson

Watching this long-delayed American musical (the film was supposed to be released in 2015) set in India, starring Oscar-winner Brie…

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 9, 2018
  • Stages, Theater

Firebrand Theatre’s Lizzie Is Delicious Rock-and-Roll Catharsis

Sitting in the audience at the thoroughly impeccable Chicago premiere of Lizzie, it is easy to forget that this production…

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • November 30, 2017
  • Stages, Theater

Newsies at Marriott Theatre is Relevant, Energetic and Earnest 

It’s new show season at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, and we were there for the opening night of their…

  • Marielle Bokor
  • November 6, 2017
  • Stages, Theater

The SpongeBob Musical Makes Joyous Chicago Splash

  Some seem incredulous based on the piece of intellectual property that spawned this production; however, unlike a certain New…

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • June 24, 2016
  • Stages, Theater

Mary Poppins a Delight for All Ages

This ain’t your mother’s Mary Poppins. Or rather, the NightBlue Performing Arts Company’s production of Mary Poppins is a jaunty…

  • Jami Nakamura Lin
  • March 7, 2016
  • Stages, Theater

Refuge Theatre Project’s High Fidelity Reclaims a Chicago Classic

Refuge Theatre Project, the no frills, contemporary music theater group that brought you Next Thing You Know and Glory Days in…

  • Emma Terhaar
  • February 16, 2016
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