Author: Colin Douglas
Overcoming Her Blind Spot
In the Wake – The Comrades
In 2010, three years before her Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic
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The Herstory of the Riot Grrrls
Brave Like Them – Anout Face Theatre
Bikini Kill. Bratmobile. Sleater-Kinney. Heavens to Betsy. Excuse 17. Skinned Teen. If you’ve never
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A Gershwin-ner of a Show
An American in Paris – Broadway in Chicago
Two years ago this highly-anticipated stage version of the 1951 Gene Kelly/Leslie Caron musical film
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Fill In the Words
They’re Playing Our Song – Brown Paper Box Company
Amidst two busy professional lives and careers, overflowing with hundreds of hit songs and
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They Like to Move It, Move It!
Madagascar—A Musical Adventure Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
After taking last summer off, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre is back, with all canons firing, with another
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Swimming Upstream
Little Fish – Kokandy Productions
“I never knew what I was like until I stopped smoking,” admits Charlotte, a young woman who has
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Welcome to the Renaissance
Something Rotten – Broadway in Chicago
Several years ago, brothers Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick, had a clever idea for a musical comedy.
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A Family and a Society in Transition
Hir
Get ready for a wildly theatrical depiction of what seems to be the new reality in today’s world. The
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Meet Me ‘Round the Corner in a Half an Hour
The Nance – Pride Films and Plays
Ned is a good-looking, down on his luck young man sitting alone at a table in a Greenwich Village automat. The nicely-groomed middle age gentleman at the table
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Prime Time Rhymes
The School for Lies – The Artistic Home
Prolific playwright David Ives is primarily known for his darkly erotic two-hander, “Venus in Fur,” a
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