Chicago Theatre Review
Hard to Say Goodbye
Dreamgirls – Porchlight Music Theatre
Porchlight Music Theatre’s highly anticipated staging of 1982’s multi-Tony Award-winning musical is loosely based on
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Trash – New American Folk Theatre
The Midwest premiere of prolific, gay playwright Johnny Drago’s appropriately titled play is a mixed bag. Bygone fame
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM – A Musical Exhibition with Circle Theatre at Flat Iron Arts Building.
By Lazlo Collins
I was excited to see this Chicago premiere at the Flat Iron Arts Building. The premise of this review seemed promising
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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
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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
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