84 stories by "Brianhey"
RECOMMENDED “You have had a good life,” the ready-for-retirement Charlie declares to his wife Nancy as they verbally joust during a beach vacation. In playwright Edward AlbeeR…
RECOMMENDED Several memorable Mozart productions have been directed by Diane Paulus and conducted by Jane Glover during Brian Dickie's thirteen-year tenure as general director of Chicago Ope…
Writers’ Theatre presented such a memorable performance of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" a few seasons back that it seemed only fitting that the company …
Although the show itself originally opened more than thirty years ago, "Dreamgirls" has had remarkable staying power, particularly since the 2006 film version that won an Oscar for Chicago's…
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Chicago has certainly witnessed its fair share of contemporized Greek theater in recent seasons"Mary-Arrchie's "Electra," Victory Gardens' "Oedipus el Rey" and The Hypocrites' "Sophocles: Se…
RECOMMENDED Falling, as it did, at the end of a weekend theater marathon (four plays, three days) and positioned between a sumptuous brunch and a daunting drive back to Chicago, coupled with…
RECOMMENDED In his tightly constructed 1995 play “Skylight,” playwright David Hare has much to say about contemporary life, especially as it relates to the choices we all make: w…
In undertaking four plays in three days up at Spring Green’s APT, the odds favored at least one dud. But on paper, “Troilus and Cressida” did not look to be that one. Not o…
