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Saturday, July 5, 2025

The Color Purple Glows at The Goodman Theatre by Jeffery Lyle Segal

Chicago’s Goodman Theatre  is exploding with life, love, and laughter in its all new production of The Color Purple.  The 1982 novel by Alice Walker has already spawned two film adaptati…

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Maddie: A New Musical Is Still Materializing by Jeffery Lyle Segal

The 1985 movie, Moxie, starring Glenn Close and Mandy Patinkin, was based on the novel “Marion’s Wall” by Jack Finney. It wasn’t a very good screenplay. But even then I thought it wa…

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Monday, April 7, 2025

Titanique Makes A Big Splash At Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse by Jeffery Lyle Segal

There’s no sinking feeling in the uproarious Porchlight Music Theatre production of the parody musical Titanique,”now playing at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse.  I missed seeing this sh…

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