Some seem incredulous based on the piece of intellectual property that spawned this production; however, unlike a certain New York fiasco with a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,” The SpongeBob Musical […]
The Unfortunates, staged by the new SoloChicago Theatre Company, is an excellent second outing from the company that produced the hit one-man show, Churchill, starring Ronald Keaton, in 2015. […]
Chris Rickett as Mel Stanwyck and Coburn Goss as Joe Schofield. Photo by Lara Goetsch Lucy Kirkwood’s 2014 Best New Play Olivier Award winner Chimerica, running at the MacArthur-Award-winning TimeLine Theatre, […]
Would you like to be master of the universe? Or maybe just director of a play? If so, the interactive play Fight Quest is a good place to start. It […]
Xanadu–(n.) the title of a horrendous ’80s film and a theatrical production parodying said horrendous film now showing at the American Theatre Company. If you hail from the land of […]
Lookingglass Theatre’s world premiere of Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure chronicles the (vaudevillian) adventures of best friends and partners Thaddeus (Travis Turner) and Slocum (Samuel Taylor) as they […]
The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]
Tapped, a Treasonous Musical Comedy, is a frothy approach to political satire, featuring tap dancing spies and snitches, a six-piece live band, and songs with refrains like “Everybody loves a […]
On Saturday, the Auditorium Theatre closes its “Made in Chicago” series with a company that has made this city home for more than five decades–Giordano Dance Chicago. “The ‘Made in […]
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the “baby killer,” the man tried, convicted and executed for the 1932 kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby, is vividly personified by George Seegebrecht in City […]
The Beginning: Tim Crouch in/as I, Malvolio. Photo by Bruce Atherton British actor and playwright Tim Crouch gives audiences a hysterical new perspective on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night through the solo lens of […]
Constellations, the new two-character play at Steppenwolf Theatre, is certainly a nonlinear story. Marianne (Jessie Fisher) and Roland (Jon Michael Hill) at times seem to be in parallel universes. She, […]