Lucky Plush Productions Makes “Better” Best with “The Better Half”

The Better Half – Lucky Plush

Lucky Plush Productions’ The Better Half is a mind-bending (and body-bending) metatheatrical deconstruction of domestic relationships. Born of adapting Gaslight, written by Patrick Hamilton, Scenes from a Marriage, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and other texts, this production supercharges the hope, hurt, trust and treason of romance with inspiring movement, choreographed with deft precision and narrative significance by Julia Rhoads. 

What a Fruit It Bears

This Bitter Earth – About Face

This bitter earth

Well, what a fruit it bears

What good is love

That no one shares?

And if my life is like the dust

That hides the glow of a rose

What good am I?

Heaven only knows

So wails vocal artist Dinah Washington on a melancholy, bluesy recording which one of the characters is listening to. He’s trying find

A Two-Actor Extravaganza

Peter Pan – Mercury Theatre

It sometimes seems that there are as many versions of this beloved story, about the boy who never grew up, as there are stars in the sky.

A Peter Pan for Today

Neverland – Prop Theatre

Devised, inspired, guided and shaped by the company’s new Artistic Director, Olivia Lilley, the twelve member ensemble for this

Burden of Proof

Proof – Skokie Theatre

Proof tells the story of Catherine, a young woman whose father, a legendary mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago,

“An Oak Tree” with Red Theater Chicago

An Oak Tree – Red Theatre

“An Oak Tree” had its Midwest premiere at the Athenaeum on November 3rd with Red Theater Chicago. The script by Tim Crouch includes two actors, one who has rehearsed the play and a second who has never even laid eyes upon it. The performance questions reality and how we deal with it, or evade it. On opening night, the rehearsed actor, also called THE HYPNOTIST, was played by Gage Wallace, who will continue for the run of the show, and the first volunteer actor was Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel. Directed meticulously by Jeremy Aluma, the performance left me speechless and has me tormentedly, but happily, baffled still to this day.

Simple Little Things

110 in the Shade – BoHo Theatre

If you’re going to adapt a popular, romantic comedy into a musical, who better to write the book than the playwright who penned the

A North Pole Adventure

’Twas the Night Before Christmas – Emerald City Theatre

From our childhood, we’re all familiar with the beloved holiday poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas.” It was written in the early 19th century

Alone With Her Memories

Lady in Denmark – Goodman Theatre

Dael Orlandersmith’s new, one-woman play, now enjoying its world premiere, is under the gentle direction of Victory Garden’s Artistic