Chicago Theatre Review
Brash and Bright – Limbo Makes You Uncomfortable
Savage in Limbo – The Poor Theatre
Imagine yourself at 32 years old.
Everyone in the audience who participates in the shared experience of Savage in Limbo will think this. Some who
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The SpongeBob Musical – Broadway in Chicago
Big, bright, boisterous, colorful, creative and crammed full of humor and joy, this giddy, glorious family musical
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The Unfortunates – SoLo Chicago
On a misty, cold November night, a 25-year-old British woman named Mary Jane Kelly slips into Whitechapel’s Ten
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Make Me a Song – Eclectic Theatre Company
“Make Me a Song” is one of several revues or song suites by composer and lyricist William Finn. It features an array
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An Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse Songbook – Theo Ubique
The 1960’s is generally acknowledged as the last decade of the Golden Age of Musical Theatre. During this period,
Read MoreA Satire of Horror
Bat Boy: The Musical – Griffin Theatre
Scott Weinstein’s magnificent, heart-pounding production of this 2001 Lucille Lortel Award-winning Off-Broadway
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Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure – Lookingglass Theatre
It’s 1908. Presidential candidate William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan, the Garfield Park
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TAPPED: a Treasonous Musical Comedy – Forth Story Productions
Molly Todd Madison writes in the program’s Director’s Notes that due to the turbulent climate of this year’s political
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Spinning – Irish Theatre of Chicago
In a small coastal Irish village, a man stands on a pier at the ocean’s edge, waves splashing and winds blowing. Conor
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The Divine Sister – Hell in a Handbag
Charles Busch, actor, female impersonator, screenwriter and playwright, is a name synonymous with camp. He’s
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