Tim Martin and Mouzam Makkar in Rasaka Theatre’s “Gruesome Playground Injuries.” I remember in elementary school I, along with some daredevil girls, perfected the art of th…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 01:31PMLet’s cut to the chase: My sister ended her brave and brief 1.5 year battle with colon cancer last week. Her passing was shockingly sudden. I mean, we saw it coming, as she had stage I…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:01PME. Faye Butler and the cast of Goodman Theatre’s “Crowns” “Does anyone still wear a hat?” bellows the embittered Joanne, as memorably originated by Elaine Strit…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 03:06PMRavi Batista and Mick Weber in Soul Theatre’s “The Lover” Every relationship needs a little spice now and then, right? Well, in Harold Pinter’s 55-minute power play, …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 09:35AMComposer Adam Guettel certainly knows his way around a musical’s concluding song. In The Light in the Piazza, which is receiving an award-winning, sold-out production at Theo Ubique up…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 02:46PMExcuse me while I theatre-queen it out for a few moments. People often think that “star quality” is intangible. Oh, no. I’m here to tell you, it’s a very real, observ…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 03:26AMIt’s a very rare thing when a beautiful, complex and emotionally stirring new musical comes along. Usually, such things hit one or two of the marks well. But with Eastland, which uses …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 12:39AMIt’s another summer in Chicago, so that means a visit from the touring production of the hit head-banger musical Rock of Ages. This crowd-pleasing show, which is now a major motion pic…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:19PMThe long-delayed reunion of any family can provide the basis for a three act play, particularly if there are more than a few skeletons in the closet. And in Paul Oakley Stovall’s rivet…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:14PMI’ve watched the Tony Awards, which celebrates the best of Broadway, religiously since 1995. Overall, this year’s production wasn’t as horrid as past years, but it was far …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:45AMOnly in Chicago would a theater company actively seek out to produce a play that has more people onstage than in the audience. Yet that’s exactly the case in The Right Brain Project…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:16AMMy dear friend, Herb (whom we lovingly rever to as “Opera Herb” because his mellifluous voice is something of a wonder), reports on the new, unique summer Chicago venue, The Rive…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:44PMWe’ve made our predictions, and tonight I’ll be on hand with some other fellow bloggers and such to see who snags a Jeff. I’ll be twittering the highlights, so follow alo…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 01:03PMLast week, Gerald and I completely disconnected from all things wireless and headed up to the land of giant, 3,000 year old trees at the Sequoia National Forest — a 4-hour drive north …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 11:56AMA bomb scientist, working for a deeply underground division of the US military, is struggling to put the pieces together from his fractured life. His latest experiment hasn’t gone exac…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 11:51PMBang the Drum Slowly is one of those rare plays that will appeal to a wide range. (Ahem: pardon me while I make sweeping and offensive generalizations.) Men will appreciate the references to…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 06:50AMIt’s been said that English plays are all about class, while American plays are about property. Well, that’s certainly the case in Patrick Marber’s 1995 play After Miss Jul…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 04:10PMThere’s something magical happening up in Glencoe, Ill. It’s a sparkling new production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1973 musical, A Little Night Music — a …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:05PMI took a day trip to Boston yesterday to catch the second preview of the new musical about Marilyn Monroe, Bombshell. Perhaps you’ve heard about it? It’s the much-anticipated bio…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:22AMAmerica – that shining land of opportunity. I know I take my freedoms for granted. They’ve just always been there, and it’s hard to imagine life without them. However, in D…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:36AMEach day I get dozens of pitches and press releases in my inbox for upcoming productions, and most of them are professional and clear, but a good chunk of them are a bit of a mess. However, …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 04:16PMHey, Chicago. Remember Jessie Mueller? Perhaps you saw her in Writers’ Theatre’s She Loves Me? Or as Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at Marriott? Or, if you were really lucky, her ste…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:11AMIt’s a Jonathan Larson summer in Chicago. Currently, the genre-defining musical theatre composer is receiving productions of his two major shows by a trio of distinguished local theatr…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 07:12AMChicago truly is an amazing theatre town — especially now, where we have two epic plays receiving landmark productions, and I’ve been lucky to see both of them. Following the sev…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 10:21AMI love cats. The animal and the show. Ok, maybe not the animal so much, but I love my cat, Alley. She’s, I guess, what you’d call a former Jellicle cat. She lived a rough life be…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:07AMThe cliffhanger that concludes the first half of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America is designed to stun. It’s the moment when the angel — an earth-shattering vision or a…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 05:44PMThere’s a rock revolution going on, and should you choose to attend, you’ve automatically become an unwitting member of The Numberless. Who are The Numberless, you ask? Why, they…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 06:09PMOk. I may be a Chicago theatre addict, but even I have my limits. You see, I get roughly several dozen press invitations a day for shows, which at first was awesome, but now it’s a bit…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:33AMSimon Callow’s one-man show, Being Shakespeare, took the U.K. by storm and is now making a short stop at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare TheatreR…
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 08:11AMRe-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret isn’t your mother’s cabaret. It’s bold, colorful, eclectic, relevant and shockingly subversive. I’ve seen a lot of cabaret in my time, …
SOURCE: Chicago Theatre Addict at 02:00PMShannon Matesky and Harry Groener in Steppenwolf’s “The March“ When adapting a 400 page epic novel for the stage, you usually have about three options: 1) Make the play 6 h…
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