Review: Adventures of Pinocchio (Chicago Shakespeare)
highly recommended for EVERYBODY over 5 years old! There are plenty of choices this summer for entertainment, choose "Pinocchio"!
highly recommended for EVERYBODY over 5 years old! There are plenty of choices this summer for entertainment, choose "Pinocchio"!
The Archivist is heavy-duty science fiction. The imaginative future fascinates as a compelling prophecy. But it also confuses.
This is 3-year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony - a young maestro in the making!
Oracle Production's Hamlet is an excellent offering for fans of the Bard. What it lacks in production value it more than makes up for in able talent. I highly recommend that you return to th…
This summer and fall, numerous Chicago area movie theaters are screening several Shakespeare works taped directly from Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre in London.
Though questionably stretched to fit into two full acts, for most of the journey the ensemble's charm supplies just enough mileage to make "Around the World" a worthy trip.
Rare Terra Theatre's clever and pointed world-premiere drama by Greg Kalleres does cast a spell. Given the tiny performance space, it's likely to run well into the fall, if not transfer to a…
In a startling example of you-are-what-you-eat, Lara Maineir as melodically brings the popular children's book "Pinkalicious" to Chicago's Broadway Playhouse. You'll be tickled pink!
In this clip from Sondheim's mesmerizing "Passion", you can see the humility and passion for Giorgio in Fosca's eyes (played by Donna Murphy). Stunning.
What a night of pure theater! Highly Recommended.
If you watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or you're a fan of Jeff Garlin's comedy from his earlier Chicago days, this isn't a show to miss!
With Vincent L. Lonergan meticulously playing the titular character of Krapp which, along with Director Aaron Snook's methodical pacing, Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" makes for a mesm…
The innovative team at Oracle Productions combines old radio audio with new visual. The sound is three old radio episodes. The look is the ensemble acting out those shows. The outcome is pu…
Check out some hilarious passive-aggressive ways to keep fellow office-workers away from your food in the office fridge.
Oscar Wilde's "Salome" is being shown in repertory with "The Living Canvas" and "Beast Women" for the arts festival 2011 NAKED JULY: ART STRIPPED DOWN.
If you have any interest in feminist studies, female playwrights in American drama, or American dramatic history in general"this play will be of high interest to you.
Performer/Writer Tony Fitzpatrick is a big personality and a natural entertainer. This show doesn't seem like an act. It feels like being invited into Tony's home for a vacation slide show.
Gliding through the air, plummeting from the ceiling, parading through the audience... and that's just within the first few minutes!
Buttressed by ferocious new speakers, Director Nick Sandys' near three-hour staging erupts in all the right places, amply proving that even the lovers' ardor is warped into extremity by the …
This entertaining, touring musical production ranges from Beatles to bebop to doo-wop to roadhouse blues, all driven home by a slick and solid seven-member band.
Nothing Special's Let X is a mess, a self-indulgent piece of dreck that is aggressively tedious and inaccessible to the casual theatergoer. Not recommended
An unsettling family driven angst in-YOUR-face production, made even more remarkable by the fact that the script came out of the imagination of a 19 year old.
Shattered Globe's Richard Corley creates charming chemistry between characters that ultimately redeems Willy Russell's perfunctory plot.
Appearance is the main theme of the piece, focusing on the ways that a person's exterior is not an accurate representation of the beauty that exists in the heart, mind, and soul. Boho Theatr…