** Chicago's theater scene just keeps growing. In fact, almost every season, a new one finds us, or vice-versa. Last...
Theatre Reviews
***** I remember the days when, in order to graduate from 8th grade and enter high school, you had to pass...
***** Black Ensemble Theater celebrates its 50th year anniversary with the revival of “Men of Soul”, a dazzling musical revue...
***** I love to laugh! My readers and listeners know that I live for comedies! I also love Sondheim, and...
*****/*****For the past five years, the Opera Festival of Chicago has quietly become one of the city's cultural treasures. Its...
**/4 “Reality Detox finds some funny, but not its Groove….” The Second City e.t.c.’s 50th revue, Reality Detox: The Improv...
***** Marriott Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” is thoroughly enjoyable. This is a story about spouses...
***** If someone were to ask me to describe Rick Elice's "Water for Elephants" in one word, that word would...
*** Liisa Repo-Martell’s fresh 2022 adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” remains true to the towering work. In Astonrep’s U.S....
** What a crazy week of theater and film. We saw "Nunsense" ( quite Catholic), then the other night, we...
