This Theater Loop Showcase video is playwright Brooke Allen’s "The Life and Death of Madam Barker," with music and lyrics by John Fournier, currently onstage at Red Tape Theatre. Molly Brennan plays Madam Barker, a brassy, history-hopping cabaret songstress who nightly relays her life story alongside a clownish ensemble. But this, Barker dramatically tells us early on, will be her final performance in the role.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 10:01AM on October 22, 2013