Monthly Archives: September 2018
Chivalry Lives On
“Arms and the Man” with City Lit
Arms and the Man – City Lit
City Lit has opened their 2018-2019 season with “Arms and the Man,” directed by Brian Pastor, who has appeared in several shows at City Lit himself (The Body Snatchers and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow). “Arms and the Man” is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, first performed and published in 1894, and considered to be his first commercial hit.
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Little Shop of Horrors – Drury Lane Oakbrook
Welcome back, Scott Calcagno! This brilliantly multitalented, detail-oriented director returns to the
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Sweet Charity – Marriott Theatre
As the performance begins, the big, brassy chords of “Hey, Big Spender” reverberate throughout
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Spring Awakening – Blank Theatre Company
Blank Theatre has opened their inaugural season with the musical “Spring Awakening.” This complex musical, originally performed on Broadway in 2006, is based on the equally, if not more, controversial 1891 play by Frank Wedekind. This reiterates the fact that society has been plagued by convoluted opinions about sex since the dawn of time and will most likely continue until our demise.
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Six Degrees of Separation – Red Twist Theatre
Red Twist Theatre is one of my favorites in the city. Every so often it strikes me how lucky I am that next to my local coffee shop is a world-class theater. Tucked in a storefront in Edgewater, the entire theater is about the size of a modest one-bedroom apartment. The result is that the audience and the show occupy the same, small space. The first show I saw there a few years ago was their production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and I spent the play’s three hours as much in George and Martha’s living room as their actual guests.* The same sense of intimacy pervades their new production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare’s play, based on the almost unbelievable true story about a charismatic young man who charms his way into a wealthy Manhattan couple’s home pretending to be the son of Sidney Poitier.
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Legally Blonde – Paramount Theatre
Paramount Theatre’s Autumn offering is a funny, creatively produced, scrumptious, hyper-caffeinated musical draped in pink and
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Homos, or Everyone in America – Pride Films & Plays
Opening Pride Films & Plays’ second full season, nestled in their intimate, North Broadway venue, is New York playwright Jordan Seavey’s
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Avenue Q – Mercury Theatre
Calling this 2004 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Book and Score edgy is like saying that pornography is spicy. But it’s so much more
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A Shayna Maidel – Timeline Theatre
Barbara Lebow’s wrenching and uplifting drama about two sisters, reunited after years of separation, tells just one of the many stories
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