Just in time for the holiday season, Broadway director Neil Goldberg has crafted a production so full of holiday cheer, it would take double the amount...
In their most ambitions production yet, Emerald City Theatre proudly presents the adventures of The Fantastic Mr. Fox on the two story Victory Gardens mainstage. Kicking...
Now in its ninth season, Inconvenience Theater Troupe presents the return of the sex positive burlesque/comedy/performance art piece, The Fly Honey...
Winding down its inaugural season, Flying Elephant Productions stages the Midwest premiere of the racially-charged dark comedy, Defacing...
During an evening that would often demonstrate there is a culpable relationship between magic and science, the Royal George Theatre has remounted The Rosenkranz Mysteries to austond a...
Every so often I get the opportunity to review something truly unique. Porchlight Theatre’s Memphis is a truly special gem. I attended late in the show’s run,...
Blending a combination of 1960’s southern charm, ever-unfolding personal secrets and more betrayal then half a dozen biblical tales, Windy City Playhouse’s latest, Southern Gothic, is...
Continuing their 2018 season of “Movers and Shakers” the Black Ensemble Theater has opened their latest, A New Attitude: In Tribute to Patti Labelle celebrating the career...
I remember not so long ago, sitting in a 1990 movie theater, listening to the Natalie Cole song “Wild Women Do” blared on the soundtrack, a perfect score to punctuate the meteoric rise...
Just in time for the end of the school year, The Madison Square Garden Company is bringing the family friendly classic, The Wizard of Oz, to...
To borrow a song title from The Beatles, I get a feeling the troupe of Lucky/Plush Productions truly are “Happy Just To Dance For You”. Their...
What do you get when you combine a deep love for 1970’s disaster pictures, more disco anthems than could ever be played in the VIP lounge...
Flying Elephant Productions is a new company whose premiere production is pointedly political. Following the turbulent 2016 United States Presidential Election, We The People The Anti-Trump Musical...
For five years in the mid-nineties, friendships could be defined by the four women at the center of the hit sitcom, Living Single. Queen Latifah, Kim...
Capping off their winter festival, Collaboraction’s dynamic team is at it again. Most of last year they were focused on their Peacebook initiative, while this year’s cornerstone is far more daring, facing...
While outside it may be snowy and cold, inside The Den Theatre is revving up their engines nightly for one hell of a hot show, Firebrand Theatre’s Lizzie. Coincidentally timed with...
Debuting his seventh play produced at Steppenwolf, headed to Broadway in the spring of 2018, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Tracy Letts’ The Minutes ensemble-driven world premiere dark comedy exists in a world...
Returning to the stage for its 30th Anniversary Season, Lookingglass Theatre’s Hard Times is as relevant now as it was back when Charles Dickens first wrote his...
Heading out to the Drury Lane, I thought we were in for a night of neatly pressed nostalgia to help wind down the year. Instead, director Michael Heitzman...
Winding down their Season of Dance, the Black Ensemble Theater concludes 2017 with a world premiere musical tribute to “The Candy Man” himself, Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr., now playing into...
Opening with a production number borrowing heavily from Dolly Parton’s country themed, workplace anthem “Nine to Five, Other Theatre’s fringe holiday showcase Barney The Elf is back...
If you enjoy your holidays peppered with outlandish bawdy spice, look no further than Steppenwolf’s 1700 Lookout Series as they staging a Christmas themed return of Hell...
Now in its 20th anniversary production, Hell in a Handbag’s Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer is back and as pointedly political as ever. Reworking his script to thumb a...
Just in time for the holidays, the Paramount Theatre in Aurora is offering an eye-popping, Broadway caliber, full-scale musical celebrating the darling outsider’s tale of one Mr. William Hobbes. If...
It is certain to say, the Goodman Theatre is celebrating their 40th Anniversary of A Christmas Carol in high style. The return of this timeless and heart warming...