Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Citadel Theatre

It’s hard to believe that this hysterical musical comedy has been around since 1962. The show features a book

The Producers -Mercury Theatre

Winning a record-breaking twelve Tony Awards back in 2001, following a Chicago pre-Broadway tryout, Mel Brooks’

Bullets Over Broadway – Broadway in Chicago

In 1994 Woody Allen wrote a sidesplitting backstage film comedy that satirized the New York theatre scene during

The Little Mermaid – Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

Audiences might want to bring their bathing suits and snorkels when they visit the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

The Q Brothers’ Othello: the Remix – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

One of the many highlights of CST’s Shakespeare 400 Chicago celebration is this remount of the company’s wildly

Carlyle – Goodman Theatre

As the election draws near and the Republican party seems poised to implode upon itself, Thomas Bradshaw has

Dreamgirls – Porchlight Music Theatre

Porchlight Music Theatre’s highly anticipated staging of 1982’s multi-Tony Award-winning musical is loosely based on

Trash – New American Folk Theatre

The Midwest premiere of prolific, gay playwright Johnny Drago’s appropriately titled play is a mixed bag. Bygone fame

Mary Page Marlowe – Goodman Theatre

A young mother sits in the booth of a restaurant. The conversation she’s about to have isn’t easy or new. She’s about to

The Women of Lockerbie – AstonRep Theatre Company

On December 21, 1988 high over the skies of Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist’s bomb exploded bringing down Pan Am