March, 2018 | Chicago Theatre Review

Monthly Archives: March 2018

She Kills Monsters – The Cuckoo’s Theater Project

While finally having the courage to clean out Tilly’s room, Midwesterner Agnes Evans discovers a handwritten notebook

Sweeney Todd – Theo Ubique

An eerie, morbidly melancholy organ fugue, played with flourish by Jeremy Ramey opens this jaw-dropping production. Suddenly a

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Citylit Theatre

Paul Edwards’ world premiere adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic continues this company’s

The 39 Steps – BrightSide Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 man-on-the-run suspense thriller charges to life in this fast-paced

You For Me For You – Sideshow Theatre Company

Two starving North Korean sisters share a ceremonial meal of tea and rice, each unselfishly trying to persuade the other to

Plantation! – Lookingglass Theatre

Miss Lillian, the genteel, widowed Texan matriarch, has three lovely, but spoiled daughters. She’s gathered them together

The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Marriott, up in Lincolnshire, has a history of producing some of the finest theatre in the Chicago area, and that goes

Mary Stuart – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Mary Stuart spent a large portion of her life imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, a woman she never actually met in

Hail, Hail Chuck: A Tribute to Chuck Berry – Black Ensemble Theatre

Jackie Taylor’s incomparable Black Ensemble Theater, one of this city’s finest and most reliable venues for consistently entertaining