Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

The Adding Machine – The Hypocrites

The humdrum, day-to-day existence of a man who’s spent 25 years doing the same, boring job, lovelessly married to

Jabari Dreams of Freedom – Chicago Children’s Theatre

Listening to the evening news can be more frightening for a child than reading any of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps novels.

Hazel – Drury Lane Theatre

Back in the early 1960’s, a no-nonsense, take-charge live-in maid named Hazel Burke burst into American homes

Matilda, the Musical – Broadway in Chicago

Roald Dahl’s popular children’s fantasy about a little English girl who endures emotional abuse from both her family

Christina, the Girl King – Cor Theatre

Based upon a chapter of little-known European history, Christina (or Kristina), who ruled as Queen of Sweden from

United Flight 232 – House Theatre

In 1989, on a beautiful sunny day in July, a United Airlines DC-10 filled with passengers left Denver, Colorado bound

Butler – Northlight Theatre

Benjamin Franklin Butler, the little-remembered American lawyer, politician and soldier, suddenly became a major

West Side Story – Paramount Arts

Back in the 1950’s when newspapers were just beginning to cover tragic stories of teenage gangs and turf wars, a new

The Bachelors – Cole Theatre

Caroline V. McGraw has created a world that may, at first, appear vaguely familiar to some of her audience. Three post-

Rent – Theo Ubique

With more than 50 shows and 40 Jeff Awards to their credit, Theo Ubique’s highly respected professional theatre