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  • Review “A Recipe For Disaster” (Windy City Playhouse): Frothy Entertainment

    Saturday, October 16, 2021 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    Chef Rick Bayless and Windy City Playhouse present the World Premiere of A RECIPE FOR DISASTER. Chef Bayless brings his extensive knowledge of restaurant catastrophes to the stage. Bayless conceived the story and wrote it with the support of WCP Amy Rubenstein and Carl Menninger. They have created another Windy City Playhouse immersion experience. This one ...

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  • EXTENDED thru May 15th “The Boys in the Band” (Windy City Playhouse): Cool Aesthetics and Thought-provoking Turmoil

    Sunday, February 16, 2020 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    Windy City Playhouse presents THE BOYS IN THE BAND. On the heels of its Southern Gothic immersion success, WCP gives us another cultural virtual reality. This experience is set in a high-rise in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1968 for a birthday party.    Audience members, in groups of 5-6, are directed by the house ...

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  • Review “Southern Gothic” (Windy City Playhouse): Stylish, Boozy Soap Opera

    Tuesday, January 29, 2019 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 1

    Windy City Playhouse presents SOUTHERN GOTHIC.  WCP debuted its immersive theatre experience in 2018 at its main theatre. Following a wildly successful initial run and multiple extensions, SOUTHERN GOTHIC has been moved to a new location to satisfy an ongoing demand for tickets. After having to cancel reviewing the show last May, I was delighted to ...

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  • EXTENDED Thru 4/7 “Noises Off” (Windy City Playhouse): Posh Lampoon

    Wednesday, January 23, 2019 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    Windy City Playhouse presents NOISES OFF. Playwright Michael Frayn raises the curtain and the veil on the drama onstage, offstage and backstage. Drama from all these angles makes for a farce like no other. Frayn breaks up his play within a play into three acts: a technical rehearsal, a matinee a month later, and a performance ...

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  • Review “The Explorers Club” (Windy City Playhouse): Cute!

    Saturday, February 6, 2016 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    Windy City Playhouse presents the Chicago Premiere of THE EXPLORERS CLUB. In Victorian England, gentlemen have formed a boys club. They each pursue different scientific projects in various areas: botany, anthropology, geography. When they return from their adventures, they regale their escapades over brandy and cigars at the club. Although the gents want to best their ...

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  • Review “Chapter Two” (Windy City Playhouse): Frothy RomCom!

    Saturday, November 14, 2015 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    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 “Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight” (Windy City Playhouse): Light-hearted, Sexually-charged Frolic

    Tuesday, August 18, 2015 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    The Windy City Playhouse presents THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T SAY PAST MIDNIGHT. Playwright Peter Ackerman has penned a saucy tale of lovers that go bang in the night.  This isn’t a rom-com as much as a sex-com.  Three couples.  Three bedrooms.  Although it never becomes a menage-a-trois, Ackerman cleverly connects these six together via three-way calling and ...

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  • Review “Stickfly” (Windy City Playhouse): Genuine Family Drama

    Friday, June 5, 2015 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 0

    Windy City Playhouse presents STICKFLY. As the insect enthusiast, Celeste M. Cooper (Taylor) explains that flies are glued to sticks so scientists can closely observe their winged struggles to get free.  Well in this show, the audience is the scientists.  The cast is the flies.  Director Chuck Smith provides the stick.  And Playwright Lydia R. Diamond ...

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  • EXTENDED Thru May 3rd “End Days” (Windy City Playhouse): Get Caught Up in this Rapture

    Tuesday, March 24, 2015 The Fourth Walsh, Windy City Playhouse Permalink 1

    Windy City Playhouse presents its inaugural production of END DAYS. The play opens with Stephen Cefalu Jr. (Nelson) strumming guitar in an Elvis jumpsuit.  He is singing his heart out to an unseen girl while being plummeted with paper wads. Next, we meet a disheveled Keith Kupferer (Arthur) waking up from sleeping on the couch.  He can’t ...

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