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Sunday, August 25, 2024

Theater Review: STABBED IN THE HEART (Factory Theater) by Emma S. Rund

TOO MUCH HEART; NOT ENOUGH BLOOD Directed by Braxton Crewell, the Factory Theater's production of Cody Lindley and Nate Hall's new rock musical Stabbed in the Heart has some hilarious moment…

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Saturday, August 17, 2024

Theater Review: RACHEL BLOOM: DEATH, LET ME DO MY SHOW (Steppenwolf in Chicago) by Emma S. Rund

RACHEL BLOOMS IN DEATH Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, gives a hilarious and vulnerable performance in her raunchy and irreverent one-woman musical comedy Death…

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Theater Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL (National Tour) by Emma S. Rund

BACK TO THE FUTURE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Broadway tour of Back to the Future, a musical adaptation of the beloved film, has landed at Chicago's Cadillac Palace as part of…

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Theater Review: IN HIS HANDS (First Floor Theater) by Emma S. Rund

A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AT THE THEATER First Floor Theater's Chicago premiere of In His Hands by Benjamin Benn, which opened last night,Â is breathtaking from start to finish. Benn's writin…

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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Theater Review: ALICE BY HEART (Kokandy Productions " Midwest Premiere at The Chopin Theatre) by Emma S. Rund

ALICE BY HEART: FULL-HEARTED PRODUCTION; HALF-HEARTED SCRIPT Alice by Heart follows a young girl, Alice (Caitlyn Cerza), during the London Blitz of World War II as she takes refuge in her be…

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Highly Recommended Theater: THE NORMAL HEART (Redtwist) by Emma S. Rund

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each w…

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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Theater Review: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: A MUSICAL TALE (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) by Emma S. Rund

BORED OF THE RINGS In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins famously states to his nephew and adoptive heir, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.Â You st…

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Friday, July 12, 2024

Theater Review: MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (World Premiere Musical at Goodman Theatre in Chicago) by Emma S. Rund

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND BAD " GET HIGH FROM A TALL GLASS OF LADY CHABLIS; TAKE A BOTTLE OF BOURBON TO ENDURE THE OTHERS The Goodman Theatre's premiere production of Midnight in th…

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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Theater Review: ZAC EFRON (Token Theatre at A Red Orchid) by Emma S. Rund

ZAC IS ON THE INSIDE TRACK Token Theatre's world premiere production of Zac Efron by David RheeÂ " co-written by Wai YimÂ and directed by Alan Muraoka " is not about Zac Efron at all, be…

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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Theater Review: LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (World Premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago) by Emma S. Rund

LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD IS A BRIGHT STAR IN OUR VAST UNIVERSE Steppenwolf's world premiere production of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. HunterÂ lays bare the reality of two people who …

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Friday, June 21, 2024

Theater | Event Review: CLUE: A WALKING MYSTERY (The Streets of Downtown Chicago) by Emma S. Rund

CLUE: A WALKING MYSTERY IS INDEED A WALKING MYSTERY MY ADVICE? JUST KEEP WALKING You could say that CLUE: A Walking Mystery lives up to its name, in that the intended audience for this exper…

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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Theater Review: THE KITE RUNNER (National Tour) by Emma S. Rund

A KITE THIS BIG DOESN'T ALWAYS TAKE OFF; WHEN IT DOES, THIS STAGE ADAPTATION IS WORTH SEEING Directed by Giles Croft, the touring production of The Kite Runner at CIBC Theatre is an intensel…

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