Chicago Theatre Review

Monthly Archives: February 2015

A Full Frontal Satire of Society

February 16, 2015 Comments Off on A Full Frontal Satire of Society

The Importance of Being Earnest – Shaw Chicago Theatre Company

 

Can there be a more exquisite comedy in the English language? Populated by some of literature’s most delightfully self-absorbed

Read More

Whimsy Inventively Presented

February 16, 2015 Comments Off on Whimsy Inventively Presented

James and the Giant Peach – Filament Theatre Company

 

In 1961, a young British author named Roald Dahl burst onto the literary scene with a children’s novel that set the standard for inventive

Read More

Millennial Connections, with Music

February 15, 2015 Comments Off on Millennial Connections, with Music

First Date – Royal George Theatre

 

Just in time for Valentines Day, and poised to warm up those cold Chicago nights, this pocket-size, recycled sitcom-style musical is cute,

Read More

Moving Toward the Darkness

February 10, 2015 Comments Off on Moving Toward the Darkness

The Addams Family – Mercury Theatre

 

The sizzling sound you hear is all the artistry that burns within Mercury Theater’s creative team. This includes director, L. Walter Stearns,

Read More

Bring on the Girls

February 5, 2015 Comments Off on Bring on the Girls

La Cage aux Folles – Marriott Theatre

 

The glitz and glamor of St. Tropez, with all its sparkle and shine, stars in sequins and feather boas and talented chorines in drag, almost

Read More

Everything’s Coming Up Mormon

February 4, 2015 Comments Off on Everything’s Coming Up Mormon

Book of Merman – Pride Films and Plays

 

With the phenomenal success of Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez’s cleverly written, irreverent and infectious musical comedy,

Read More

Documented History as Theatre

February 4, 2015 Comments Off on Documented History as Theatre

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 – The Other Theatre Company

 

Following the unthinkably violent incidents that occurred in the aftermath of Rodney King’s sadistic beating in California, stage and

Read More

A Chilling Morality Tale for a Winter Night

February 4, 2015 Comments Off on A Chilling Morality Tale for a Winter Night

White Guy on the Bus – Northlight Theatre

 

Each Saturday Ray, an affluent, caucasian business man, shares a public bus with a single, African American mother named Shatique, in

Read More

Ladies Not for Burning

February 4, 2015 Comments Off on Ladies Not for Burning

Rapture, Blister, Burn – Goodman Theatre

 

At some point in life, often in one’s middle age years, a person begins considering the road not taken, the life one could’ve chosen…but

Read More

The Family That Votes Together…

February 2, 2015 Comments Off on The Family That Votes Together…

The Apple Family Plays: – Timeline Theatre

That Hopey Changey Thing

 

It’s November 2 in Rhinebeck, New York. The polls are about to close for the 2010 mid-term elections. Gathering around the dinner table

Read More