Author: Colin Douglas
Style and Sincerity Rule
The Importance of Being Earnest – Writers Theatre
Can there be a more exquisite comedy in the English language? Populated by some of literature’s most delightfully self-absorbed characters, Oscar Wilde’s comedy
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Acceptance in the Kingdom of Colors
Sleeping Beauty – Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences
Forget the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault or Walt Disney’s fairy tale versions of this story. Marc Robin takes familiar fairy tales and rewrites them for today’s kids.
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A Streamlined Journey to Redemption
Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits – Citadel Theatre
Charles Dickens’ famous cautionary tale about the old miser who learns to love Christmas and his fellow man can be found in more variations than ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins.
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A License to Chill
Escape to Margaritaville – Broadway in Chicago
Jimmy Buffett is more than merely a composer and singer. He’s a Pop Culture legend. For the past 40 years he’s become the symbol of a more relaxed, carefree way of life. His
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Grrrl Power
Lizzie – Firebrand Theatre
Opening with the familiar sing-song refrain of the childish rhyme, “Lizzie Border took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her
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Blow Out Your Candles
The Glass Menagerie – Jedlicka Performing Arts Center
Tennessee Williams’ self-entitled Memory Play launched his career as a respected playwright. It
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Art Imitating Life
Fade – Teatro Vista and Victory Gardens
Tanya Saracho, cofounder of Teatro Luna and a Victory Gardens ensemble playwright, maintains that her 2013 play isn’t about her own life. This, despite the fact
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You’ve Gotta Have Friends
Significant Other – About Face Theatre
Jordan is a young man, on the cusp of turning 30. As the play opens, he’s enjoying a mostly fulfilling social life as the Gay Best Friend of his three college pals, Kiki,
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Go Into Your Dance!
42nd Street – Drury Lane Oakbrook
There’s an old saying proclaiming that “everything old is new again.” Generally it implies that, if you wait long enough, yesterday’s ideas will come back into fashion again. But that’s
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A Tree Without Roots
Yasmina’s Necklace
Abdul Samee, or Sam, as he prefers to be called so as to be more accepted, is a product of several different cultures. Ali, his father, is an Iraqi immigrant; Sara, his extremely
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