*****/*****For the past five years, the Opera Festival of Chicago has quietly become one of the city's cultural treasures. Its...
Theatre Reviews
**/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...
**** Nuns! How many musicals and films have been made with the focus on nuns? If you Google it, you...
*** “Deserted”, written by Melanie Coffey and directed by Laura Sturm, is a meaningful show about the extent to which...
*** There are many theater people who talk about "Type Casting". This is when certain actors are always playing roles...
**** “Two Out of Three Falls” is a surprisingly refreshing and emotional play about professional wrestling and the people who...
