
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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Meet Ensign Nellie Forbush, the all-American heroine in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “South Pacific.” Pretty, pluc…
Tags:Victory Gardens Theater"Fun Home"Alison Bechdel
Victory Gardens Theater kicks off its 43rd season with “Fun Home” – the coming-of-age, coming-out story that received fi…
Tags:women in theater"Mary Poppins"Mercury Theater
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Mary Poppins—the practically perfect, umbrella-flying nanny who blows into London on beh…
Tags:"Straight White Men"Steppenwolf TheatreYoung Jean Lee
This is a retroactive review. This is a retroactive review because I wasn’t planning to write a review—my original pl…
Tags:"What of the Night?"Janet ArviaCor Theater
The need to feed the body, soul and ego are among the many ways in which hunger manifests itself in “What of the Night?”…
Tags:chicago theater"The Last Wife"TimeLine Theatre
Most everyone knows who Henry VIII is, what he looks like, and that he married six times. Many Americans are even famili…
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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…