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Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at Lyric Opera delivers a blast of Robert Falls’ operatic past
Director Robert Falls' signature maximalism is still with us, I am happy to report, even...
Review: Never flashy, ‘4000 Miles’ by A Short Leap Theatre lets the humanity come through
In Amy Herzog’s 2011 play, a troubled 21-year-old man shows up at his grandmother’s Manhattan...
Review: The special show ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ starts with a list and the audience takes it from there
Now in the smaller theater space at Writers Theatre in Glencoe, the actress Jessie Fisher...
Review: Big-hearted ‘White Christmas’ is back in town for the holidays
It's snowing already at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire as the musical with the familiar...
Bob Gaudio on how he channeled Neil Diamond’s music to make ‘A Beautiful Noise’
The former member of the Four Seasons is a producer of the biographical musical based...
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...
‘House on Mango Street’ is becoming an opera, with Sandra Cisneros’ help
In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the...
LATTE production channels universal feeling of ‘being an outsider’
The La Grange Area Teen Theater Ensemble's fall production will feature S.E. Hinton's story of...
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...
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...
New play asks why America can’t elect a female leader. Will rewrites be needed after Nov. 5?
"Coronation" is three acts, told in less than two hours and covers a couple hundred...
Review: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is still a fun musical but ‘Somewhere That’s Green’ hasn’t aged well
Now in a production by Music Theater Works in Skokie, this campy sci-fi show has...