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Monday, February 4, 2013

Review: The Birthday Party/Steppenwolf Theatre by Zach Freeman

“Why did the chicken cross the road?” It’s a simple enough question and there are any number of suitable punchlines. But when this trivial setup-line is asked, needled, demanded three …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AM

Monday, January 28, 2013

Review: The Magnificents/The House Theatre of Chicago by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Actor/magician Dennis Watkins, hot off of last year’s widely praised extended run of “Death and Harry Houdini,” is currently enjoying an open run of his one-man magic show,…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:03PM

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Review: The Aliens/A Red Orchid Theatre by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Right from the start, director Shade Murray lets the audience know that he isn’t afraid of the (often lengthy) silent patches between Annie Baker’s careful slice-of-life dial…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:52PM

Monday, December 3, 2012

Review: Season’s Geekings: A Gorilla Tango Burlesque Holiday Special/Gorilla Tango Theatre by Zach Freeman

My how the busty have fallen. Two years ago “Boobs and Goombas” surprised and delighted audiences across Chicago with its carefully calibrated mix of playful geekery and partial nudity. …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:29AM

Review: Peter Pan’s Shadow Part 3: Foreverland/Dream Theatre Company by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Peter Pan, that familiar little scamp, always seems to get away with his shenanigans scot free. We’re meant to root for him despite his egomania and thoughtlessness because…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:26AM

Friday, October 19, 2012

Review: Anna, in the Darkness/Dream Theatre Company by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED The atmosphere for this superbly haunting piece of Halloween fare is firmly established from the moment you’re guided by hand from the dimly lit lobby through the cramped and d…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:31AM

Monday, October 15, 2012

Chicago Theater Review: PONTYPOOL (Strawdog Theatre Company) by Zach Freeman

THE LANGUAGE OF THE ZOMBIE Over a decade ago, author Tony Burgess penned the experimental novel Pontypool Changes Everything, which featured what could be called “zombies” but focused mo…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25PM

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Review: The Life of Death/WildClaw Theatre by Zach Freeman

It’s Christmastime in London and if the serial killer on the loose doesn’t take you out, the deadly plague that’s quickly spreading across town certainly will. WildClaw Theatre’s lat…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Review: Black Watch/The National Theatre of Scotland and Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED In the cavernous space of the Broadway Armory, “Black Watch” feels both massive and intimate, at once communicating the tedium and (sometimes literal) explosiveness of war. F…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:46AM

Monday, October 8, 2012

Review: Frankenstein/City Lit Theater by Zach Freeman

Opening and closing in the tight quarters of a ship on the Arctic Sea, most of playwright Bo List’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel unfolds as a recounting of events from a traumatize…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:30PM

Monday, October 1, 2012

Review: Metamorphoses/Lookingglass Theatre Company by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Returning to the Lookingglass stage fourteen years after its debut (and a decade after it won director Mary Zimmerman a Best Director Tony on Broadway) “Metamorphoses” feels …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:52PM

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Review: The Late Live Show/Stage 773 by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED A fast-paced, sixty-minute comedy show that mostly follows the late-night talk-show format—but with eccentrically dark edges—”The Late Live Show” has an inspiring…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM

Monday, September 10, 2012

Review: The Iron Stag King: Part One/The House Theatre of Chicago by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Wizards. Pirates. Vikings. Politics. Tracy Letts voicing a giant dragon. The first show of the House Theatre’s eleventh season is nothing if not ambitious. Striving to be epic,…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:33PM

Monday, August 6, 2012

Review: The Magic Parlour/The House Theatre of Chicago by Zach Freeman

RECOMMENDED Performing in a fashionably nostalgic parlor room at the Palmer House Hilton downtown, magician Dennis Watkins—star of the House Theatre’s wildly popular “Death and Harry H…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:59PM

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