Reviewed by Tom Lawler Set the scene: Sideshow Theatre Company, now in its 10th season, continues its multi-year residency at Victory Gardens housed in Lincoln Park’s historic Biographic Theatre. What’s it all about: A famous American singer-songwriter (Andrew Goetten) is holed up in a hotel in mid-1960s Paris while on tour and battling a constant series of ...
The Fourth Walsh
Theatre with a side of life
Category Sideshow Theatre
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Review “The Happiest Place on Earth”(Sideshow Theatre): Dawkins’ Disney Playful and Poignant
The Greenhouse Theatre Center, in conjunction with Sideshow Theatre,presents the World Premiere of THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. I am a longtime fan of Playwright Philip Dawkins. Until Friday night, I had never seen Dawkins perform. In his one man show, Dawkins cleverly weaves together his family’s and Disney’s origin stories. In a classroom-like setting, he ...
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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 “Chalk” (Sideshow Theatre): Sci-Fi meets Lifetime Channel Original
Sideshow Theatre Company, in conjunction with Boston’s Fresh Ink Theatre, presents a two-city rolling world premiere of CHALK. The world is coming to an end. In an abandoned building, two women and an alien are separated by a circle of chalk. Playwright Walt McGough pens a homespun thriller. In the broader realm, a world invasion is ...
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Review “Stupid Fucking Bird” (Sideshow Theatre): Sort of Liked
Sideshow Theatre presents the Midwest premiere of STUPID FUCKING BIRD. In the program the phrase ‘sort of’ appears before the adaptation credit. Playwright Aaron Posner uses the basic framework from Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” Although Posner sets it in contemporary times, his characters have the same Chekhov conflicts. Dev loves Mash who loves Con who ...
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Review “Tyrant” (Sideshow Theatre): The Realities of Ending Homelessness
Sideshow Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of TYRANT. The solution to homelessness is government regulated slavery according to Playwright Kathleen Akerley. She bases her story in the aftermath of the Congress approved Rectification Act of 2015. The legislation outlined provisions for the homeless. They are moved into Centers and trained with a work skill. In ...
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Review “The Golden Dragon” (Sideshow Theatre): Schimmelpfenning’s Chop Suey
Sideshow Theatre presents THE GOLDEN DRAGON. In 2012, Sideshow produced their Jeff Award-winning Idomeneus. That innovative, critically-acclaimed play was written by Roland Schimmelpfenning. In The Golden Dragon, Sideshow produces another of Schimmelpfenning’s work. This one is centered in a restaurant. The five member ensemble, Matt Fletcher, David Lawrence Hamilton,Daria Harper, Deanna Myers and Noah Sullivan, are ...