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  • Review “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (Idle Muse Theatre): Intriguing Twists on a Familiar Tale

    Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents the World Premiere of THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.  Playwright Michael Dalberg reimagines and expands on the familiar story of a mild-mannered doctor transforming into a raging monster. Dalberg’s tale has all the same characters. Yet, in this version, Dr. Jekyll (played by an impressive Brandi Jiminez Lee) ...

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  • Review “Upon This Shore” (Idle Muse Theatre): Ambitious World Premiere

    Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre Company presents the world premiere production of Upon This Shore: A Tale of Pericles and the Daughters of Tyre. Director and Adaptor Evan Jackson ambitiously orchestrates one of Shakespeare’s less recognized works. At its core, the tale is about a prince separated from his wife and child. As with any Shakes’ saga, the ...

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  • Review “In the Next Room Or the Vibrator Play” (Idle Muse Theatre): Deliberate Sexual Contemplation

    Thursday, March 12, 2020 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY). Playwright Sarah Ruhl explores the sexual repression of 19th century women. She sets her story in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Givings. While the Mrs. (Kristen Alesia)struggles with postpartum depression, her hubby (Joel Thompson) is treating women for hysteria in his operating theatre ...

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  • Review “Equivocation” (Idle Muse Theatre Company): Compelling Introspective!

    Saturday, September 28, 2019 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre Company presents EQUIVOCATION. Playwright Bill Cain blurs the lines between fact and fiction, onstage and offstage, history and real time in this Shakespearean mash-up. The Bard has been royally commissioned to write a play about the powder keg assassination attempt on the King. The problem is this isn’t about history. The treasonous ...

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  • Review “Best for Winter” (Idle Muse Theatre): Robust Storytelling

    Monday, April 1, 2019 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents BEST FOR WINTER. Director Evan Jackson impressively adapts works by William Shakespeare, including The Winter’s Tale, into one epic tale. His storytelling is bursting with signature Shake; a mad king, a shipwreck, mistaken identities, star-crossed lovers. Jackson engages with an almost overwhelming 16 characters. Over time, his multiple storylines are weaved together  in a ...

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  • Review “Girl Found” (Idle Muse Theatre): Real People Desperate for Love

    Sunday, May 20, 2018 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Girl Found. Playwright Barbara Lhota skillfully pulls us into a family's emotional reunion.  Eleven year old Sophia disappeared from her Detroit home and reappears six years later in Toronto. Her mysterious homecoming raises all kinds of questions as the family reconciles the past with the present. What happened during ...

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  • Review “The Scullery Maid” (Idle Muse Theatre): Caked with Classism

    Monday, March 27, 2017 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of THE SCULLERY MAID. The war is over.  The plague is regressing. King Edward III (played by Dave Skvarla) has returned from the battlefield to face domestic disturbances in his castle.  Playwright Joseph Zettlelmaier drops us into 1300s England where the kitchen staff is baking a cake for the ...

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  • Review “The Woman Who Amuses Herself” (Idle Muse Theatre): Portrait of Art

    Sunday, July 17, 2016 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of THE WOMAN WHO AMUSES HERSELF. Mona Lisa is famous. The 16th century portrait is recognized even by people with little to no art background. Playwright Victor Lodato uses the iconic painting as the subject of his play. In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia (played by the outstanding Nathan Thompson) stole ...

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  • Review “The Hounds of the Baskervilles” (Idle Muse Theatre): The Original Bro-mance

    Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre Company presents a World Premiere adaptation of THE HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES. Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the most famous detective in history.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a persona whose superior intellect picked up on the smallest hint of a clue. Sherlock’s sleuthing was aided by his trusted sidekick Dr. Watson.  The duo ...

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  • Review “The Talking Cure” (Idle Muse Theatre): Psychoanalysis Origin Story

    Saturday, February 21, 2015 Idle Muse Theatre Company, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Idle Muse Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of THE TALKING CURE. The origin story of psychoanalysis is presented with wonder and reverence in this play about the evolution of thought.  Playwright Christopher Hampton tells the story of Carl Jung’s discoveries in applying his mentor’s, Sigmund Freud, theories into actual treatment.  The play starts with Jung (played ...

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