Colin Douglas | Chicago Theatre Review

Author: Colin Douglas

Shining Lives – Northlight Theatre

The War’s finally over and once again the economy’s booming. It’s the 1920’s and women are thrilled to join th

Inana – Timeline Theatre

Because, as the United States was about to invade Iraq in 2003, our government neglected to develop a plan for

Belfast Girls – Artemisia

In the early nineteenth century colonial authorities wanted new blood for Australia. In order to attract female

Big Fish – Theatre at the Center

With a book by John August and a score by Andrew Lippa, this musical about telling tales and spinning yarns is

Jersey Boys – Broadway in Chicago

Jukebox musicals get a bad rap. The genre has been around since the 1970’s, but the new millennium has witnessed

The Little Foxes – Goodman Theatre

The Hubbards are a coldblooded, money-hungry, aristocratic clan who live near each other in a small Southern town

Side Man – American Blues Theater

A Pulitzer Prize nominee and Broadway’s 1999 Tony Award-winner for Best Play is currently being given a towering production at the

Don’t Dress for Dinner – Citadel Theatre

Running footsteps, doors slamming, horny men and hot women popping up in compromising costumes, positions and situations—this is

Sense and Sensibility – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

Jane Austen’s novel about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two devoted friends who also just happen to be sisters, is a story that

Major Barbara – ShawChicago

During one of his most fertile periods of writing, George Bernard Shaw created this theatrical philosophical argument, disguised as a