Monday, February 24, 2014
These all feel like real, believable characters and�even more to the credit of playwright Sheffer and this cast�like people we haven't met before.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
It's a good story�an intriguing one, as family secrets are revealed and we become invested in the fates of the 19-year-old parents.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PMFriday, January 24, 2014
This new take on Phantom feels less like the blockbuster it still is and more just a good, solid entertainment that knows exactly what it wants to achieve and has a good time doing it. I dou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMMonday, December 2, 2013
Imagine this�among the holiday/Christmas themed shows this season is a play about Christianity! But this world premiere production of Paulus, written in Hebrew by Motti Lerner and translated…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMa group of Chicago artists is presenting a show that honors the victims of a tragedy that occurred at a matinee of such a family-friendly show on December 30, 1903. It was a precursor of the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMSunday, October 13, 2013
Just as its film predecessor showed a whole different way a movie musical could work, the Tony Award-winning Once reshapes our expectations of what a Broadway musical looks and feels like.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:25PMMarketing this show as a "LaBute play" is pretty much the only way to market it because to say what it's really about would entirely spoil it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Chicago Shakespeare has Harry Groener in the title role and he seems uniquely qualified to play Rostand's 17th century warrior-poet with the oversized intellect, heart and nose.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:20PMIt's staged beautifully-scenes from Duras' memory, narrated by Deanna Dunagan as the author, occur around the proscenium stage, coming and going with the aid of imaginative lighting design a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PMThursday, September 26, 2013
Allen's character bravely endures a multitude of trials and indignities in the midst of Tina Landau's visual spectacle with gripping supporting performances by some of the Steppenwolf ensemb…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
Fans of Evita and those new to the piece will likely find this tour an acceptable interpretation. I'd guess those who remember the 1979 Broadway original and even the feature film with Madon…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:13PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Those who believe in "buying American" will be pleased to learn the USA has its own Martin McDonagh now.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:14AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
A stage appearance by Chicago favorite William Petersen (who began his career here in storefront theater before making it big in TV and movies) is always an occasion.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:23PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
edlicka, which has been producing shows since 1981, has frequently mounted musicals that might otherwise never have been seen in Chicago.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMSunday, July 7, 2013
Chicago playwright Keith Huff, who scored big with A Steady Rain on Broadway (where it starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig) and has been working in TV on the likes of "Mad Men" and "House …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
The bulk of this story is scenes between the prisoners Molina�an effeminate window-dresser convicted of a sexual offense�and Valentin�a revolutionary opposing the government�in their tiny pr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19AMMonday, May 13, 2013
A one act, 80-minute comedy-drama set in a neighborhood bar in Philadelphia, Stella and Lou concerns the bar's sixty-something widower owner Lou (Steppenwolf's Francis Guinan); regular Stell…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28PMMonday, April 29, 2013
Directed and adapted by Hershey Felder from a book by Mona Golubek and Lee Cohen, it's the true story of Golubek's mother, Lisa Jura, who at age 13 escaped from Vienna to London just after t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMFor Anything Goes, Roundabout has given us not only a stellar leading lady in Rachel York, but a most impressive cast of supporting performers with Broadway cred as well.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
This musical directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman is a big show�with clever and sometimes spectacular set designs by Julian Crouch (The Addams Family) and vivid projections by Benjami…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
The "Head of Passes" of the title is the recognized mouth of the Mississippi River, though it's separated from the Gulf of Mexico by islands that create three distinct waterways (called "pas…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:42PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Though he tells his rascal father it's all to help him out, we don't really see where Frank Jr.'s scams are steps toward the greater goal and as a result we don't get invested in his journey…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:31AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Some people's lives are remarkable for what they've done. Others are remarkable for what they've seen. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the 23-year-old Army surgeon who was present when John Wilk…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AMThursday, March 7, 2013
n American Story ... is about the young surgeon who found himself thrust into the role of doctor to the mortally wounded President Lincoln just for attending a performance of Our American Co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AMSunday, February 3, 2013
The team at Drury Lane, though, has smartly downsized Sunset Boulevard from its original oversized dimensions and proved it to be a much more solid piece than many might have believed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:51PMMonday, January 28, 2013
... just as the title misdirects us to think the play might actually be set in one of those other Coachella Valley cities, the first act of the play misleads us into thinking Other Desert C…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Steppenwolf's production has star power of its own in Jimmy Smits, who's doing Chris Rock's role of the duplicitous AA sponsor of parolee and recovering addict/alcoholic Ralph D.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
Overall, though, this mix of traditional musical comedy conventions together with Parker and Stone's outrageous and eviscerating satire is what makes this show seem fresh even as it feels co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47AMMonday, December 10, 2012
This stage musical adaptation, conceived by the estimable Jack O'Brien for San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and, later, Broadway, deserves some credit for trying to stay true to Seuss.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:43PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Hellcab follows one day in the life of a Chicago cabbie-Christmas Eve Day, at that-and introduces the audience to 33 passengers and acquaintances he encounters throughout the day.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PMSunday, November 18, 2012
For the stage adaptation, bookwriters Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner (with an assist from Douglas Carter Beane) have moved the action back to the 1970s, allowing the original songs…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PM 
