Eclipse Theatre presents THE LISBON TRAVIATA. I loved this show. Playwright Terrence McNally composed an unsung opera. It has passion and music and obsession and tragedy. It also has humor. McNally drops us into the 1980s New York apartment of Mendy (played by the outstanding JP Pierson). Pierson is playing his latest Maria Callas record acquisition ...
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Review “No More Sad Things” (Sideshow Theatre): Humor Gets Buried and Interrupted
Sideshow Theatre presents a co-world premiere with Boise Contemporary Theatre, NO MORE SAD THINGS. Playwright Hansol Jung debuts a quirky tale about escapism. An Ohio woman, coping with her mother’s debilitating cancer, is plagued with reoccurring frog nightmares. Several states and an ocean away a guy, dealing with a father’s career-altering accident, dreams of watching a ...
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Review “Chapter Two” (Windy City Playhouse): Frothy RomCom!
Windy City Playhouse presents CHAPTER TWO. CHAPTER TWO premiered in 1977. It was Playwright Neil Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason. The semi-autobiographical play focuses on a widower’s struggle between his dead wife and his new love. Throw in a meddling brother and a sexually-frustrated friend and the set-up is pure frothy rom-com. The ...
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Review “Pilgrim’s Progress” (A Red Orchid Theatre): Wacky and Smart!
A Red Orchid Theatre presents the World Premiere of PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. In two words, Playwright Brett Neveu’s tale is wacky and smart! This quirky family Thanksgiving is a charcoal black comedy. Dad is a stage actor. Mom is a psychologist. Son is an earth-poet. And daughter is a pregnant teen. Neveu’s characters are each unique. And ...
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Review “Wozzeck” (Lyric Opera): Tight and Unsettling Examination of Humanity
The Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a new production of WOZZECK . Lyric’s latest opera is a unique theatrical experience for multiple reasons. Historically, Composer Alban Berg debuted this opera in Berlin in 1925. He had seen the the 1830‘s play “Wozzeck” in 1914. He begin writing the opera about a soldier named Wozzeck during World ...
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Review “Four Women: Josephine, Eartha, Nina and Tina” (Chicago Humanities Festival): Phenomenal!
(From L to R) Lili-Anne Brown, Lynne Jordan, Monique Haley, Bethany Thomas, Karla Beard-Leroy, Alexis J. Rogers, Dee Alexander, and E. Faye Butler singing Four Women at the Chicago Humanities Festival production of Four Women on Monday, Nov. 2 at Francis W Parker School, as part of the 2015 Fall Festival, Citizens. Photo by ...
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Review “The Time of Your Life” (The Artistic Home): Is Now! See it before Nov. 15th
The Artistic Home presents THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE. It’s 1939. People are unemployed, hungry and desperate. A mysterious man named Joe (played by Scott Westerman) holds court at Nick’s Tavern. Although the world around him is uncertain, he finds solace and beauty in his established routine of unpredictability. As various drunks, hookers, and seedy officials ...
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Review “The Play About My Dad” (Raven Theatre): Poignant Hurricane Storytelling
Raven Theatre presents THE PLAY ABOUT MY DAD. Playwright Boo Killebrew tells Hurricane Katrina stories about her hometown, Gulfport, Mississippi. A family refusing to evacuate. An old lady waiting for her son to arrive from New Orleans. Two paramedics holding down their post. And Dr. Larry Killebrew, the playwright’s father, working through the storm at the ...