Review: Ring of Fire/Mercury Theater Chicago
RECOMMENDED The music of Johnny Cash has a unique sound that elevates it past the rest of the country genre. Even those of us who aren't terribly familiar with other country songs will know …
RECOMMENDED The music of Johnny Cash has a unique sound that elevates it past the rest of the country genre. Even those of us who aren't terribly familiar with other country songs will know …
RECOMMENDED If Neil Simon had written "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" about musicians, rather than television writers, the likely result would have resembled Warren Leight's "Side Man." The str…
RECOMMENDED Richard Kalinoski's play "Beast on the Moon" has won awards all over the world, and in Raven Theatre's current production directed by Michael Menendian, one can easily see why. T…
The publicity materials and preview articles written about Polarity Ensemble Theatre's world-premiere production of "Anna in the Afterlife" admit that the play is a therapy exercise for the …
RECOMMENDED Oscar Wilde is generally acknowledged as one of the most skillful wits to have written in the English language. His plays are filled with wicked jibes at the expense of British s…
RECOMMENDED In this day and age, people are often defined publicly by what they put forth through electronic means of communication. Mickle Maher's play "Song About Himself" is an exploratio…
RECOMMENDED I truly wonder what would prompt a director to choose David Hirson’s “La Bête” as his or her next project to tackle. It is a play in the style of Moliere, wi…
RECOMMENDED John Patrick Shanley's newest play is the tale of Anthony Reilly, a man who believes himself to have no value to anyone else, a man who has dedicated his life to a farm that his …