Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

The Room – A Red Orchid Theatre

As the play opens, Rose is working diligently cooking a hot evening meal of rashers and eggs for Bert, who quietly sits

A Light in the Dark – Chicago Childrens Theatre

Most adults are familiar with the story of these two heroic women, whose lives forever light up the darkness. The

The Birds – Citadel Theatre

Neither Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece of horror, nor the short story by Daphne du Maurier, playwright

Visiting Edna – Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Family is everything. It’s that fuzzy, warm force that shapes and molds each of us. It’s the place you go when no one

Skooby Don’t – Hell in a Handbag

The gang of amateur detectives collectively known as Mystery, Inc. are back again. Rising from the vaults of

The Bardy Bunch – Mercury Theatre

The brainchild of playwright Stephen Garvey, this little cult musical parody originally debuted at New York’s 2011

Tug of War: Civil Strife – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Just four months ago, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, as part of its yearlong Shakespeare 400 Celebration, produced

Fly By Night – Theo Ubique

This sweet little seven-handed show, so perfectly suited to an intimate venue like the No Exit Cafe, is a little known

Hand to God – Victory Gardens Theatre

Perhaps the devil made him do it, but Robert Askins’ dark, irreverent, riveting comic drama is about honesty and

Life Sucks – Lookingglass Theatre

If everything in our lives doesn’t go just as we expect or want it, the common cry is that Life Sucks. But does it really?