Tuesday, 18 October 2016 22:12
The Devil Makes All of Us Do It in Hilarious Hand to God
Written by Bill Esler
Watching teens in a Cypress, Texas, Bible class plan a sock puppet revue, we have a setting ripe with dramatic possibilities. In Hand to God, playing now at Victory Gardens Theater, one of those puppet claims a mind of his own, hurling sacrilegious epithets and encouraging mayhem with his devil-may-care…
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"Atlantic City is like a real life, 3D Bruce Springsteen song, and not one of the good ones. Something off Nebraska," controversial monologist Mike Daisey waxes in his new show "The Trump Card." Daisey, a master storyteller, made a splash in 2010 when his Apple expose "The Agony and the…
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Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:26
New Colony's "Merge" A Funny, In Depth Look at Atari History
Written by Michaelle Bradford
True gamers, especially nostalgic ones, will appreciate The New Colony’s world premiere of Merge. Closing out its 2016 season, this 90-minute, fast-paced, and often funny, performance at the Den Theatre’s Upstairs Main Stage spotlights the roller-coaster history of Atari, a pioneer manufacturer of video arcade games. Written by Spenser Davis…
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Monday, 10 October 2016 13:32
The Burials Refuses to Let Our Consciences Lie Unattended
Written by Jacob Davis
If you were to take a survey of teenagers and young adults to determine which social issue they’re most interested in seeing addressed onstage, mass shootings would be near the top of the list. Though the kind of incident in which an ideologically fanatical and/or severely mentally ill individual massacres…
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What more can be said about the phenomenon that is Hamilton: An American Musical? The ever-growing hype, not to mention the genius content, speak for themselves. It was nothing less than an absolute thrill to finally sit down to see this musical after nearly a year of obsessing over the…
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Monday, 03 October 2016 14:49
Skooby Don't is going to be another Hell in a Handbag Halloween Hit!
Written by Kimberly Katz
Are you old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons? I mean when there was no other place or time on TV to watch three hours of children's cartoon TV shows? Well, if you are, like me, you'll remember the "Scooby Doo" show whose lead character was a talking dog who…
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Sunday, 02 October 2016 15:44
It's Back and Hilarious As Ever - "Tony and Tina's Wedding"
Written by Ken Payne
It's been nearly eight years since that loud, boisterous Italian nuptial celebration has left Chicago, but now "Tony N' Tina's Wedding" is back. Reworked from its 1993 through 2009 run at Piper's Alley, the wedding actually takes place at a church. The Resurrection Church, located near Belmont and Sheffield, is…
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The tumultuous personal life of the six-time married Henry VIII has been an inspiration for dramatists for centuries, and provided immortal fame to several of his ill-fated wives. However, as the wife who had the political astuteness to survive him and the luck to marry him after he had already…
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Sunday, 02 October 2016 15:36
Visiting Edna a masterful production at Steppenwolf, though a tad long
Written by Bill Esler
David Rabe’s Visiting Edna is everything you expect from Steppenwolf Theatre: a work of depth and significance, actors rendering studied characters, and production values of the highest order. Rabe’s writing also displays another Steppenwolf hallmark: plays that mine the power and drama in the ordinary language of daily life. Edna…
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Wednesday, 28 September 2016 15:54
It’s Partridge Vs. Brady in "The Bardy Bunch"
Written by Ken Payne
Who's doesn’t remember The Brady Bunch? Mike Brady who has three sons, marries Carol, who has three daughters, they bring in a live in housekeeper, Alice, and they quickly become one of America’s most beloved families of the 1970’s. We basically watch the kids grow up, getting into all kinds…
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Sunday, 25 September 2016 12:40
Barbarians at the Georgetown Gate - The City of Conversation at Northlight Theatre
Written by Michaelle Bradford
In the current political climate, where the political left and right are more divided than ever in their world view, Northlight Theatre’s The City of Conversation provides a glimpse at an elite class of Washington, DC, power players and how they charted the course of this country from behind the…
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Friday, 23 September 2016 18:21
Thrones: The Musical Parody - A Hilarious Ride That Never Slows Down
Written by Ken Payne
After a successful summer preview run, "Thrones: The Musical Parody" has returned to Apollo Theater for Fall performances. Though the production might not have the staying power as did "Million Dollar Quartet", a show originally scheduled for a two-week run that was renewed for several years, "Thrones" is a solid…
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016 18:15
"Life Sucks" or Does it? Aaron Posner's Funny Play is Performed to Perfection at Lookingglass Theatre
Written by Kimberly Katz
As soon as you enter the beautiful set that designer Brian Sidney Bembridge, has created for “Life Sucks", you are tip-toeing through what feels like a real forest of delicately lit white birch trees in the light of early evening in Autumn. The action then proceeds mostly on the front…
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