Steep Theatre presents the world premiere of HINTER. Playwright Calamity West pulls us into a real-life unsolved mystery from the 1920s. From the first scene of shadows and whispers, the storytelling is engaging. West drops us on a farm in post WWI Germany. The war has caused a shortage of food, money and men. Widows are ...
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Review “Five Mile Lake” (Shattered Globe): Dreaming Big, Living Wistfully
Shattered Globe presents FIVE MILE LAKE. Playwright Rachel Bonds puts her own spin on the familiar question 'Can you go home again?' Drew Schad (Danny) and Joseph Wiens(Rufus) have returned to their hometown. Each is retreating from complications of the real world. Their siblings, Daniela Colucci (Mary) and Steve Peebles (Jamie), never left home. They provide their siblings with the ...
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Review “The Good Fight” (Babes with Blades Theatre Company): Inspiring Present-Day Gumption
Babes With Blades Theatre Company (BWBTC) continues its 20th Anniversary Season: “Origins” with the Chicago premiere of The Good Fight. Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gertrude Harding, Harriet Kerr, Grace Roe, Emily Wilding Davison were women suffragettes in London. Playwright Anne Bertram gives us a peek into the turbulent era that secured a woman's right to vote. Bertram starts her ...
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Review “Turandot” (Lyric Opera of Chicago): Puccini, Pageantry, Performances to love!
11/27/17 6:31:58 PM Lyric Opera Chicago's production of Puccini's Turandot.©†Todd Rosenberg 2017 Lyric Opera’s new-to-Chicago production of Turandot. Production Designer Allen Charles Klein provides an imaginative backdrop for Puccini's last opera. The focal point is an over-sized dragon lounging on his back. One claw serves as the pulpit for the Emperor. The other claw holds a mystical ...
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Review “Lettin’ the Good Times Roll” (Kicky Productions): Faye, Felicia, Fabulous!
Steve Abrams & Kicky Productions presents E. Faye Butler & Felicia P. Fields in LETTIN' THE GOOD TIMES ROLL. This show was thirty-one years in the making. Butler and Fields met at The Wiz auditions over three decades ago. Their friendship started in mutual admiration and grew into sisterhood. In the LETTIN' THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, these ...
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Review “Pine”: Pretty Damn Clever!
The U.S.A. premiere of PINE is at Uncommon Ground Edgewater for a limited holiday engagement. After seeing PINE at the Hampstead Theatre in London in January 2016, Director Arianna Soloway was inspired to bring it to Chicago. Soloway cleverly presents the play outdoors in a Christmas tree lot at Uncommon Ground Edgewater. The makeshift theatre has ...
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Review “Lizzie” (Firebrand Theatre): Killer Rock Opera Slays!
Firebrand Theatre presents its inaugural production, the Chicago Premiere of LIZZIE. Artistic Director and Founder Harmony France debuts her new theatre company with a killer rock opera. The creative team of Steven Cheslik-deMeyer (concept, music, lyrics), Alan Stevens Hewitt (music, additional lyrics) and Tim Maner (concept, book, additional music) tell the story of the brutal Borden ...