Review: ‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ on Broadway is a don’t-miss chance to revisit his music
With a company that includes stars like Bernadette Peters who first sang in Stephen Sondheim's musicals, shows like this won't come around again.
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Review: ‘Boop! The Musical’ opens on Broadway as a retro song-and-dance celebration
Director Jerry Mitchell’s sing-and-smile-along musical opens in New York, vastly improved from its Chicago tryout and starring the talented Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop.
Review: In ‘The Book of Grace’ at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on a man and his family.
Review: ‘The Last Five Years’ on Broadway stumbles with its casting
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren both may be talented, but they never connect as the couple we watch in Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical.
Review: In ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway, here’s George Clooney with an urgent bulletin
To his credit, he disappears into the role of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, on stage here in a prescient McCarthy-era story masterfully told by director David Cromer.
Review: ‘Titanique’ at Broadway Playhouse avoids the icebergs and showcases a rising star
This parody musical has found all the right ways to be funny as it sends up the 1997 movie and singer Céline Dion — and top of the list is...
As ‘Titanique’ opens in Chicago, talking to the actress who plays Céline Dion
This show is a musical spoof of both the 1997 movie "Titanic" and the Canadian vocal diva Céline Dion. We spoke with Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, a Northwestern University graduate who...
Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ on Broadway has a terrific cast, though some as the wrong salesmen
Bill Burr is perfect as Moss in this revival of Mamet's riveting play about desperate salesmen. Bob Odenkirk would have been even better swapping places with Michael McKean.
Review: ‘The Listeners’ at Lyric Opera loses its story as it follows the Hum
"The Listeners," the wild new opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Varek, begins with a coyote dancing across the stage of Chicago's Lyric Opera and...
Review: ‘Sunny Afternoon’ at Chicago Shakespeare chases the soul of Ray Davies and The Kinks
This jukebox music plays tribute to the great British Invasion band, now in its North American debut in Chicago. The cast is led by a knockout Ray Davies.