Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

Badfic Love – Strange Bedfellows Theatre

Kyle, and his three buddies are devoted to and obsessed with searching the internet for bad fan fiction, with the goal of putting an end to it.

Billy Elliot – Drury Lane Oakbrook

Although most of Chicago may have already seen this inspiring, heartfelt musical, either on Broadway or in the 2010 extended Chicago

The Herd – Steppenwolf Theatre Company

It’s Andy’s 21st birthday. Although he hasn’t exactly been counting the days until the event, Carol, Andy’s mother, is planning a special

Anything Goes – Marriott Theatre

Can there be any better way to shake off the Winter blues and welcome Spring to Chicagoland than with this musical gem of the ocean?

The Grown-Up

The New Plays Humana Festival, sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville, has great respect for the writing of Jordan Harrison. To

Carousel – Lyric Opera

Chicago audiences are in for a magical, moving musical treat with the Lyric Opera’s third year of their five-show retrospective, showcasing

Return to the Forbidden Planet – Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

In 1989, British playwright and director Bob Carlton came up with the idea of adapting Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” into a musical whose

The Upstairs Concierge – Goodman Theatre

On the heels of his enormous critical and popular success, the Jeff Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist,“The Elaborate Entrance of

Murder Ballad – Bailiwick

Tales of murder and passion have always fascinated the public. Songs of revenge have been around for ages. Centuries ago the murder

Travesties – Remy Bumppo

In a surreal mixture of Monty Pythonesque characters, Oscar Wilde wordplay and Marx Brothers’ situations, Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-