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The former member of the Four Seasons is a producer of the biographical musical based on the life and songs of Neil Diamond.
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Review: ‘Leroy and Lucy’ at Steppenwolf is a revision of an old blues legend
The tale of blues musician Robert Johnson crossing paths with the devil is a potent place to start, but this play still needs more work.
Review: ‘Into the Woods’ by Kokandy Productions is a magical Sondheim adventure
The audience is seated around grand pianos and very much seemed to be carried away into this extraordinary musical's forest on the night I attended.
Review: ‘Best Kept Secret’ on the Second City e.t.c. Stage will survive the election, and that’s no simple feat
In a show with a theme of spilling personal secrets, there are also laughs at the expense of cruise lovers and meat-flavored laundry detergent ("Nobody wants it. Not even in...
Review: RSC’s ‘Pericles’ at Chicago Shakespeare gives a late Shakespeare play new intensity
This powerful play about tyrants and heroes is now in a not-to-be-missed production from the visiting Royal Shakespeare Company on Navy Pier.
Review: Remy Bumppo’s ‘Dear Elizabeth’ fits a world of human connection between pages of letters
Sarah Ruhl's enthralling play is about the decades-long friendship between the 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
Review: It’s hard to hear the young love in this Broadway ‘Romeo + Juliet’
While the two leads are sincere, the show itself is (a) altogether too much of too much; (b) a bit of an ill-focused mess; and (c) less than engrossing.
Review: The first national tour of ‘Some Like It Hot’ has lively retro jazz music
But the story plays it overly safe in this musical adaptation of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie.
Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, ‘Milo Imagines the World’ has a young audience right there with him
Oh, the pleasures of watching a kid's show accompanied by a school group. I was reminded at this musical how much I missed the experience.
Review: ‘Left on Tenth’ on Broadway is a simple story about late-in-life romance
As penned by Delia Ephron from her memoir, it stars Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher in a play that's first about loss and grief.