An Old-Fashioned Walk

Holiday Inn–Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre

It’s that time of year again when holiday entertainments blossom like poinsettias in every theatre around Chicago. Two years ago a “new”

Not a Show For Everyone

Wife Material–Underscore Theatre Company

Maybe it’s a gender bias. Perhaps it’s a generational issue. Probably it’s a little of both, but this new musical, that launches this company’s

A Breathtaking Multimedia Experience

Frankenstein – Court Theatre

There are no less than three retellings of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking horror classic currently playing in Chicago. Celebrating the

Arresting Shoplifters Along the Miracle Mile

Plainclothes – Broken Nose Theatre

Based on his own experiences as an undercover security guard for one of Chicago’s major retail department stores, playwright and co-

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

Ghosts – Redtwist Theatre

Ghosts, by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, had its world premiere in 1882 – in Chicago, of all places. Like Ibsen’s other works, it’s a

Winter Doesn’t Last Forever

The Snow Queen – Filament Theatre

There’s a chill in the air along with a generous sprinkling of magic that’s heralding change and the arrival of a new holiday season.

Lucky Plush Productions Makes “Better” Best with “The Better Half”

The Better Half – Lucky Plush

Lucky Plush Productions’ The Better Half is a mind-bending (and body-bending) metatheatrical deconstruction of domestic relationships. Born of adapting Gaslight, written by Patrick Hamilton, Scenes from a Marriage, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and other texts, this production supercharges the hope, hurt, trust and treason of romance with inspiring movement, choreographed with deft precision and narrative significance by Julia Rhoads. 

What a Fruit It Bears

This Bitter Earth – About Face

This bitter earth

Well, what a fruit it bears

What good is love

That no one shares?

And if my life is like the dust

That hides the glow of a rose

What good am I?

Heaven only knows

So wails vocal artist Dinah Washington on a melancholy, bluesy recording which one of the characters is listening to. He’s trying find

A Two-Actor Extravaganza

Peter Pan – Mercury Theatre

It sometimes seems that there are as many versions of this beloved story, about the boy who never grew up, as there are stars in the sky.