THE YODELING ROCKS, THE SHOW DOES NOT Before Adam Guettel was declared the next Sondheim by many for his beautiful, swelling Light in the Piazza score, he drew on the rich folk sounds of Ken…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:28AMLET ME GO, LOVER I’ll be the first to admit as a twenty-something that I don’t know what it’s like to feel like your sex life has passed you by – something I’m told that many coup…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PMMR. SANDMAN, BRING ME A NIGHTMARE There is something passing strange at the Oracle Theatre, and you won’t want to miss it. In Oracle’s The Sandman, dreams are not to be trusted, illusion…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:54PMSHANGHAIED It takes a rare courage to brave Chicago’s Navy Pier during the summer. A combination of lines and advertisements threaten to ensnare you and your wallet with just a simple miss…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:28PMA FRAGILE PRODUCTION STILL RESONATES Stepping from the bustling, sunny streets of Lincoln Park into Steppenwolf’s Garage Theatre feels like traveling back almost a century into the sepia-t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:57PMA TRIUMPHANT FLY TO BUZZ ABOUT I won’t try to tell you the plot of Anger/Fly, other than that a fly lands in soup and the world ends. In Theatre of the Absurd, plot is rarely the point –…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:08PMSHOULD YOU GO TO HELL? Sarte said that Hell is other people, but playwright Ethan Coen proposes that watching other people experience hell is supposed to be hysterical. Coen’s Almost An Ev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:24PM[title of review] The Northlight Theatre decided to step off of the beaten path this season, putting on the relatively unknown cult musical [title of show]. The simple premise has two writer…
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