“There’ll come a time when they will stop laughing, and that will be the time when our Antigone hits them with her words” John- The Island Two Black men, bound together with shackles on their feet and hands, are brought to a beach on Robben Island. The same Robben Island…
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Sunday, 20 November 2022 13:29
"Follow every rainbow Till you find your dream" - Paramount's 'The Sound of Music' Spectacular in Every Way
Written by Kimberly Katz
From the moment the sisters along with Mother Abbess sang “Maria” in one of the show’s earliest numbers, I knew I was in for a special performance. Their voices soared through the theater with a magnificence beyond what I had hoped. And when Mother Abbess (so richly performed by Susan…
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Monday, 21 November 2022 20:00
Smiling's My Favorite; Elf-the Musical Brings Christmas Cheer at Drury Theatre
Written by Kendall Royzen
When I was in college, a roommate shared their obsession with a Christmas movie I had never seen, the 2003 Will Ferrell film Elf. Over the next few years, she would religiously play Elf on replay during each fall semester with proclamations it was the perfect "it’s the perfect cozy…
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As we left the theatre my companion said, “I’d give that an A- if I knew what the heck we just saw.” From the mouths of Friends! THIS IS NOT A PIPE is a compilation of several genres packaged together into a 2-hour production. Each of these moieties are excellently…
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What did you do during the 2020 lockdown? Many people I know took on a special project – learning to bake bread, or writing a novel. Me, I took a literary antiracism journey. From the classics like Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, WEB DuBois, and James Baldwin to more contemporary thinkers…
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Sunday, 13 November 2022 15:17
Review: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' at Skokie Theatre
Written by Wesley David
My favorite writer of all time is Tennessee Williams. He was born into a dysfunctional family in Mississippi 1911. Most of his plays revolve around family dynamics. My favorite play of his, and of all time is “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. It is an exploration of life, of…
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Monday, 07 November 2022 15:39
Babes with Blades Theatre Company's 'Plaid as Hell' at Factory Theater a queer romp in the woods, with mayhem and manacles!
Sarz Maxwell
I’m not a devotee of the comedic genre and wouldn’t ordinarily choose this show. But I am a devotee – and a fervent one! – of Babes with Blades. With PLAID AS HELL the Babes, as always, bring it off. Written by Cat McCaysh/h and directed by Christina Casano/h, PLAID…
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Friday, 11 November 2022 14:18
A holiday treat! Marriott Theatre's 'A Christmas Story: The Musical'
Written by Ken Payne
What first made its mark on Broadway ten years ago in November 2012, has now become a traditional holiday play for theater goers to attend – when it comes to town. Based on the mega-popular film, A Christmas Story: The Musical is regularly being mounted by theater companies come November…
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Tuesday, 08 November 2022 15:47
D&D fan or not, 'The Twenty-Sided Tavern' is a fun new way to enjoy theater!
Written by Kimberly Katz
The Twenty-Sided Tavern is a funny, lively, and very interactive theater experience based on the game Dungeons & Dragons that was first published in 1974 and soared in popularity in the 1980s. And thanks to its devoted following, the fantasy role playing game that takes its players on epic journeys through…
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Wednesday, 09 November 2022 13:27
And Now Something Completely Different: 'The Conspirators 125th Anniversary Jubilee'
Written by Bill Esler
The title alone is the tip-off that “The 125th Anniversary Jubilee” from The Conspirators is out of the ordinary—an irreverent show that is both laugh-inducing and thought provoking. “Jubilee” consists of a sampling of skits from The Conspirators past performances, as well as “imagined” skits from an impossibly distant past…
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Sunday, 06 November 2022 14:05
Review: Porchlight Music Theatre's 'Rent' - Highly Recommended!
Sarz Maxwell
RENT opens with three slides projected one-by-one onto a billowing curtain: rent noun a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of a building rent verb [past tense of rend] to tear apart, split, or divide an object or community rent…
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Tuesday, 01 November 2022 15:36
'American Son' at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre: This show is miraculous!
Sarz Maxwell
You know that breathless moment of silence after the curtain falls and before the applause begins? That moment doesn’t happen often, and it always indicates a truly extraordinary performance. That silence occurred Sunday night as the stage of AMERICAN SON at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre went black: we all sat stunned for…
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Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:18
True Story of a False Prophet: Man of the People Is a Powerful Tonic for What Ails Us
Written by Bill Esler
“Man of the People,” an original play by Dolores Diaz, tells the incredible but true story of a 1920s medical charlatan, Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, who garnered a large following with a popular medical advice radio program. He then scammed thousands of his devoted listeners into buying useless tonics, some…
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