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Just in time for Valentines, this sweet, whimsical Disney short will surely brighten your day. Enjoy! The other candidates for Best Animated Short are here.
Despite the need for editing, I enjoyed Teddy Ferrara for its fresh and believable portrait of young collegiate adults - gay and straight. Playwright Evan Shinn has an impressive voice and s…
So it's not for me, but it might be for you. Your teen could do much, much worse on their own unescorted visits to the city, so if you're looking for some unthreatening fun, there's a wide s…
Visually and technically, the show is impressive. Yet, like the tiger, we find ourselves asking "Why?" with no satisfactory answer. Rajiv Joseph's script presents us with a number of interac…
This production is most notable for a promising concept that doesn't play as well as it should. Not only is the expected humor mostly absent, but we never get a clear picture of how telling …
It might seem intimidating to have to sit through a Shakespeare play, but this one is worth a watch. There are enough twists and turns to draw you into the world of court intrigue and absorb…
Screen Door promises *a combination of video, theater, and music performance to deconstruct movies into their composite visual and aural parts.* Their end result, thankfully, is a very poli…
Disconnect is an entertaining look inside an Indian call-center. But like the call center itself, there is a lot going on here, and in the clamor some focus gets lost. (read more...)
ATC has done a masterful job in bringing this script to updated life since its 2005 premiere. With surreal style and a surprising amount of levity and compassion, columbinus explores Columbi…
This is a new production. The set and costumes were designed by Vicki Mortimer's sets and costumes are majestic, moving us from cathedral to neighborhood street to cobbler house to townsqua…
Steppenwolf's mostly-distinguished cast does their best, but toil under the subpar script and Austin Pendleton's baffling direction. Also, the dialects are so terrible I couldn't tell if the…
We recommend the Successors for anyone from Chicago or anyone with a family that fights over politics. This political comedy is an inside look into the Mayor's dirty laundry. (read more...)
There's potentially a good play in here, with some trimming of the overlong scenes and some fuller backstory or context. Right now, it feels longer than its two hours of stage time and fails…
Maybe opening night is like the first pancake--it's a test and should be thrown away. Alas, that happened, all too forgettably even for this transience, on as the improvisers failed to push …
There isn't an iota of seriousness in this comedy, which is just as it should be. At times the humor gets a bit slapstick, perhaps more so than avid Wodehouse fans will be comfortable with, …
ShawChicago's method of production is staged readings by primarily Equity Actors. The bare-bone show puts the words center stage and is a reminder why George Bernard Shaw is a legend. Widow…
The lack of clarity about what emotion this show is trying to evoke is ultimately what makes it a less than enjoyable theater experience. Perhaps with focusing on just the 'horror' aspect of…
"Happiness" is one of those shows that makes us grateful to playwrights like Mickle Maher for gifting us their creativity, and to casts like this for their labor of love. See this show and y…
Christine Sherrill, as Norma Desmond, puts in a bravura performance, belting out the ballads like "With One Look" with enough power to shake the chandeliers. (read more...)
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill is a beautifully, devastating musical biography of a legend. We've lost Billie Holiday but for a limited engagement we have Alexis J. Rogers. This la…
Director Michael Halberstam and his crew have amped of the sex and dealt with the out-of-date aspects by giving the show a stylized, slightly surreal edge, making it almost fantasy. This "S…
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Despite the lack of storyline sustenance, The Baker's Wife (in Concert) is a sincere and tasty surprise. (read more...)
After curtain call, Cathy Rigby flies over the audience. Two seats down from me, a little girl reached her arms up to catch the shower of sparkles. When the lights went up, I (the jaded crit…
By the time the grand finale rolls around, you'll be wiping away a tear while smiling at the giddy wonder of the Magnificents. (read more...)
