Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

Sweeney Todd – Paramount Theatre

The show opens with a morbidly melancholy organ fugue, played with precision by Michael Keefe. Suddenly a

The Scottsboro Boys – Porchlight Music Theatre

In what would be a final collaboration, famed, award-winning Broadway composer John Kander and his lyricist

Deep in the Heart of Tuna – American Folk Theatre

In what might be considered “the best of” from the previous four sketch comedies, this new Tuna installment,

The Book of Joseph – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

With increasing frequency, our wonderful Tony Award-winning regional theatre, the jewel of Chicago’s Navy Pier,

The History Boys – Eclectic Full Contact Theatre

As Irwin, the newly-hired young history teacher attempts to teach his tricks for acing examinations to eight energetic

elemeno pea – Citadel Theatre

Artistic Director Scott Phelps made a delightful discovery while attending a weekend of new plays, presented at the

BootyCandy – Windy City Playhouse

Written by African American playwright and director Robert O’Hara, this series of interconnected vignettes, each of

The Bodyguard – Broadway in Chicago

A 1992 mega hit film, starring the incomparable singer, Whitney Houston, in her acting debut, and a stoic Kevin

I Left My Heart – Mercury Theatre

Ageless American musical icon Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick

The Nether – A Red Orchid Theatre

January theatre seems to be off to a gloomy, depressing start. There are a number of productions currently playing