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DON’T LET THIS PARADE PASS YOU BY With no intentions of reviewing, I attended 3-D Theatricals’ astounding rendition of Parade, bookwriter Alfred Uhry and composer/lyricist Jas…
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH Eugene O'Neill twice turned his troubled youth into all-absorbing drama. His family first appeared as a happy tangle of eccentric loved ones in Ah, Wilderness!, a h…
ON CONFORMING AND CHRIST Ah, what better fodder for drama is there than the dysfunctional American family? You know the ingredients: accusations hurled back and forth by the walking wounded;…
HALLUCINOGENS, MAN-WHORES & CHINA PEOPLE I'm not sure why Steve Chang chose to call his world premiere one-man show at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival A Complete Waste of Time. It isn…
BREAKING DOWN FENCES An American requiem, an oratorio, and a choral masterpiece elegantly and movingly performed, Considering Matthew Shepard, which closes tonight at the Ford Amphitheatre, …
MOTHER COURAGE IN MOTOR CITY The marvel of scenic designer Rachel Meyers' work greets you when you enter the theater at the Geffen Playhouse, and draws the audience into Skeleton Crew, the t…
FLY TO THIS NEST Boy oh boy, if you like immersive theater, than check yourself into the madhouse over in Burbank. When the rebellious, charismatic and playful Randle McMurphy gets reassigne…
EVERYTHING’S FINE, BUT WHAT IF WE ALSO HAD BEEN AFRAID? Starting out as a parody of Edward Albee's Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kate Scelsa's Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf is…
SORRY TO BURST YOUR BABBLE In this unfortunate world premiere, the winsome cast begins with angry pessimistic post-millennial Benji (Will Choi), an Asian-American comic book artist whose bos…
BEAUTY AND BLOOD Guards at the Taj is, in the very best sense, unavoidable. To appreciate this grim and great drama by Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lake Effect), …
ONE ARMENIAN, ONE TURK, ONE ROOM " WHAT ARE THE ODDS? "Your blondness has not served you the way we had hoped," says a woman to her daughter, as a husband and father is dying of heart failur…
PIRATES STEALS YOUR HEART Music Theater Works just unleashed 140 minutes of undiluted ecstasy and hilarious nonsense, and the lucky location is Northwestern University's Cahn Auditorium in E…
LULA’S BACK IN TOWN The Ford Theatres presents Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) on Friday, June 8 at 8:30pm, as part of its IGNITE @ the FORD! series. For this joyous evening of da…
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and…
OUR LOST DREAM CITY It's possible to think that it never happened, that we imagined its splendor to exalt our past. It was the most transient of treasures, with only the Museum of Science an…
COME TO THIS CABARET Aside from the fact that it will sell out quickly, there are a number of reasons to rush out and get tickets for Celebration Theatre’s revival of Cabaret. First…
THE UNCIVIL WAR Goodman Theatre's current epic won't be confused with other dramas. It explores the Civil War as seen and suffered by the slaves. Not the usual perspective but it delivers a …
FROM ORANGE JUICE TO A PIE IN THE FACE "What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alterna…
A WALL WILL NEVER STOP A BUTTERFLY When I was a kid, the word "wetback" had negative connotations, but I don't remember it being considered particularly hateful. My mother even used it to de…
A LEAGUES OF THEIR OWN You can't keep a bad man down. Especially when he's Captain Nemo, the scourge of the sea. Returning to the watery roots of Moby Dick, Lookingglass Theatre Company laun…
STRINDBERG SET IN SOUTH AFRICA Yes, it's Mies Julie, not Miss Julie, and it's by Yaël Farber, not August Strindberg. And that makes a monstrous difference. Repurposed to depict a differen…
A POWER COUPLE WORTH RECLAIMING Lest we forget two women who long ago shaped their future into our present, witness Bull in a China Shop. Written by Mount Holyoke alumna Bryna Turner, this c…
WHILE HARDLY REVELATIONAL, A REVVED-UP REVIVAL BECOMES RELATABLE It’s a miracle. After seeing the original 2005 musical adaption, it seemed that nothing could fix this show. But the…
EINE KLEINE SWEDISH SOLSTICE Some 40 years after its birth, A Little Night Music feels like it's always been here. Wisely and warmly, composer Stephen Sondheim and writer Hugh Wheeler, borro…
STOOD UP YET AGAIN… "Birth was the death of him": Terse to the point of cruelty, Samuel Beckett here devours the human experience in six words. Waiting for Godot, his minimalist masterp…
