May, 2015 | Chicago Theatre Review

Monthly Archives: May 2015

Belfast Girls – Artemisia

In the early nineteenth century colonial authorities wanted new blood for Australia. In order to attract female

Big Fish – Theatre at the Center

With a book by John August and a score by Andrew Lippa, this musical about telling tales and spinning yarns is

Jersey Boys – Broadway in Chicago

Jukebox musicals get a bad rap. The genre has been around since the 1970’s, but the new millennium has witnessed

The Little Foxes – Goodman Theatre

The Hubbards are a coldblooded, money-hungry, aristocratic clan who live near each other in a small Southern town

The White Road – Irish Theatre of Chicago

The story of Ernest Shackleton is a story of leadership and legends. He is best know for his expeditions to Antarctica,

The Drowning Girls – Signal Ensemble Theatre

A warm summer evening for theater. Reflections of a day in your life. Who do you know? Who have you loved? How did your feelings get in the way?

Side Man – American Blues Theater

A Pulitzer Prize nominee and Broadway’s 1999 Tony Award-winner for Best Play is currently being given a towering production at the

Don’t Dress for Dinner – Citadel Theatre

Running footsteps, doors slamming, horny men and hot women popping up in compromising costumes, positions and situations—this is

Sense and Sensibility – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Jane Austen’s novel about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two devoted friends who also just happen to be sisters, is a story that

Major Barbara – ShawChicago

During one of his most fertile periods of writing, George Bernard Shaw created this theatrical philosophical argument, disguised as a