Tuesday, September 12, 2023
SOMEONE MUST HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS, BECAUSE THIS ANGEL DOESN’T FLY There are times when a reviewer is tempted to recuse himself (or herself) from publicly commenting on a comedy because h…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:43PMSunday, September 10, 2023
PERFECTLY MARVELOUS Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:30AMTuesday, August 15, 2023
EVITA IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU The Cygnet Theatre revival of the musical Evita has already been extended to October 1, 2023, due to positive ticket buyer interest. Cygnet visitors should…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:26AMThursday, August 10, 2023
THE WEARYING WIVES OF WINDSOR Scholars generally believe that William Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays. And those scholars likely would rank the comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor at or close…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:24PMSunday, July 23, 2023
YOUR ONLY CRIME WOULD BE MISSING THIS PUNISHMENT The Old Globe Theater is presenting the world premiere of Crime and Punishment, A Comedy and it is a gem of a satire on one of the most famou…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:10PMMonday, June 19, 2023
SUCH STRANGE GOINGS ON Cygnet Theatre’s new play Sharon is set in Everett, Washington, 90 minutes from Seattle. The time is 2019. The action is concentrated in the parlor of a dilapidated …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, June 12, 2023
“You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor at the North Coast Repertory Theatre is a one-woman drama that condenses the lif…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:35PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
NOTHING IS MORE REAL THAN NOTHING — Samuel Beckett Dramatist Will Eno doesn’t make it easy on the audience in his 2012 play The Realistic Joneses at the Laguna Playhouse. Viewers are ask…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMMonday, April 24, 2023
THIS SHOW IS MURDER The latest production at North Coast Rep is a stage adaption of Dame Agatha Christie’s 1923 detective novel Murder on the Links. Originally titled The Murder on the Lin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:09AMMonday, April 17, 2023
ANNA MIKAMI ALREADY WELL-SEASONED IN HER THEATRICAL DEBUT For theatergoers who have been waiting impatiently for a new play about monosodium glutamate, your wish has been answered. Check out…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:49AMFriday, March 24, 2023
THE BLOSSOMS DO EVENTUALLY BLOOM IN THIS ORCHARD Russian playwright Anton Chekhov believed his classic 1904 drama The Cherry Orchard was a comedy bordering on farce, but generations of audie…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:43AMMonday, March 6, 2023
¡JUGAR A LA PELOTA! Under A Baseball Sky is a likable new play by José Cruz González now nearing the end of a five-week run at the Old Globe Theatre. It’s tight work, running about 90 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:45PMFriday, April 8, 2022
WHILE NOT A DISASTER, SOME INGREDIENTS NEED FIXIN’ In 2012 and 2014 the famous Chicago chef Rick Bayless and the Lookingglass Theatre Company joined to present a food-and-show production c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:06PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, Oscar Levant was one of the most popular and versatile figures on the American entertainment scene. Levant was a pia…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:13PMSaturday, March 12, 2022
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WOMEN Eleanor Burgess’s new play Wife of a Salesman is a riff on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Burgess (The Niceties) has adapted the Miller original into …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:23PMSaturday, February 12, 2022
A ROCKIN’ REVIVAL OF WEST SIDE STORY AT MARRIOTT Fans of musical theater in general and West Side Story in particular should thoroughly enjoy the Marriott Theatre revival. The production o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:38PMThursday, February 10, 2022
GROUNDHOG DAY DOES NOT BEAR REPEATING The Paramount Theatre has a well deserved reputation for presenting classy productions of musicals that approach Broadway caliber. That certainly can be…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:59PMSaturday, February 5, 2022
EVITA: SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU Evita at the Drury Lane Theatre is a prime example of a revival that preserves the virtues of the original musical while injecting enhancements that should r…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:45AMMonday, January 31, 2022
THE SECRET IS OUT: COUNCIL IS A WINNER The First Folio Theatre has come up with an unexpected winner in David Rice’s world premiere adaptation of Agatha Christie’s light novel of interna…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53AMSaturday, January 29, 2022
FIREFLIES SHINES BRIGHT AT NORTHLIGHT Fireflies at the Northlight Theater takes audiences back to the fraught year of 1963 in the Deep South, where racial tensions burn hot, as black people …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:50PMThursday, January 20, 2022
The Impostors Theatre Company (ITC) continues their third season with the Chicago premiere of Hertha Nova, by ITC Executive Director Rachel Borgo and directed by ITC Artistic Director Stefan…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:44PMMonday, January 10, 2022
MARVIN’S ROOM COMES TO ACTORS CO-OP The Award-winning Actors Co-op Theatre Company proudly presents Marvin’s Room, winner of the 1991-1992 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. The audi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:14PMSunday, December 19, 2021
WASHING AWAY DOUBTS ABOUT GREAT THEATER And now for something completely different for the holiday entertainment season, a one-man show called Dishwasher Dreams performed by a Bangladesh act…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:38PMFriday, December 17, 2021
AN UPDATED AND STILL OUTDATED KISS In William Shakespeare’s 16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, a wandering fortune hunter named Petruchio does battle with a fiery independent wom…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:55PMWednesday, December 15, 2021
Pretty Woman: The Musical is an adaption of the 1990 motion picture that made a star of Julia Roberts as Vivian, a Hollywood prostitute who wants out of her life on the streets. Providential…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:32PMMonday, December 13, 2021
English novelist Charles Dickens once actually used his hat to carry water to victims of a train wreck in Victorian England. Playwright Michael Hollinger uses that odd historical incident as…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:30AMSunday, December 12, 2021
A SOBERING EXPERIENCE When Harry Met Rehab is a new play at the Greenhouse Theater Center that takes on the uninviting subject alcoholism. The title may suggest that the play intends a light…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, November 18, 2021
PARADISE, INDEED The eyes of the theater world, both in Chicago and New York City, are likely now focused on the James M. Nederlander Theatre where Paradise Square is performing before its t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:02PMWednesday, November 17, 2021
THIS BUGABOO WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME The Steppenwolf Theatre’s extraordinary production of Tracy Letts’s Bug was winding down its highly praised production in March 2020 when the drama was …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PMSaturday, November 13, 2021
Sister Act at the Mercury Theater is the 2011 Broadway adaptation of a 1992 movie that became a surprise box office hit, largely elevated by a star performance from Whoopi Goldberg. The show…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMMonday, November 1, 2021
SEEING THIS REVUE MAY BE THE BEST DECISION YOU’VE EVER MADE I entered the Second City e.t.c. on opening night with a sense of unease. Two weeks earlier the Second City mainstage company, t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM 
