Chicago Theatre and Concert Reviews

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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

SEMINAL ROCK BAND THE REPLACEMENTS IS “BACK BY UNPOPULAR DEMAND”

SET TO EMBARK ON ITS FIRST FULL U.S. TOUR SINCE 1991

The Replacements walked away from each other in Chicago’s Grant Park on July 4, 1991, seemingly never to return to the stage together

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-

Title and Deed – Lookingglass Theatre

Will Eno, runner-up for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play “Thom Paine (based on nothing),” has written a new one-man show

Our Bad Magnet – Mary-Arrchie Theatre

Take an unsolved local mystery, combine it with a dark, rural tale of lost innocence and lace it with bursts of unexpected black humor and

Balm in Gilead = Griffin Theatre

Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play, written back in 1965 when the young playwright was living in New York City, became his signature

Outside Mullingar – Northlight Theatre

John Patrick Shanley (the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Moonstruck” and the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-