Drury Lane’s ‘South Pacific’ Provides Some Lessons & Some Enchanted Evening
Meet Ensign Nellie Forbush, the all-American heroine in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “South Pacific.” Pretty, pluc…
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‘Fun Home’ Improvement: Broadway Hit Could Fix Some Misses
Victory Gardens Theater kicks off its 43rd season with “Fun Home” – the coming-of-age, coming-out story that received fi…
It’s a Jolly Holiday with Mercury Theater’s ‘Mary Poppins’
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mary Poppins—the practically perfect, umbrella-flying nanny who blows into London on beh…
‘Straight White Men’: If Logan Square Was a Performance Piece
This is a retroactive review. This is a retroactive review because I wasn’t planning to write a review—my original pl…
‘What of the Night?’ Wakes Up Chicago’s Theatre Scene with Midwest Premiere of Award-Winning Off-Off-Broadway Work
The need to feed the body, soul and ego are among the many ways in which hunger manifests itself in “What of the Night?”…
Women in Politics is Parr for the Course in ‘The Last Wife’ at TimeLine Theatre
Most everyone knows who Henry VIII is, what he looks like, and that he married six times. Many Americans are even famili…
Cosmetic Titans Hiss and Makeup in World Premiere Musical ‘War Paint’
Decades before girl power was en vogue—or in the American vernacular—the idea of more than one queen bee at the top of a…
