Review | MAMMA MIA! at Drury Lane

Review | MAMMA MIA! at Drury Lane

MAMMA MIA! Is absolute fluff. It’s a jukebox musical featuring the music of ABBA, for Pete’s sake. And I am here for it.

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Review: CARDBOARD PIANO at TimeLine Theatre Company

Review: CARDBOARD PIANO at TimeLine Theatre Company

CARDBOARD PIANO is honest, tragic, and raises many important questions without providing answers.

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Review: GYPSY at Porchlight Music Theatre

Review: GYPSY at Porchlight Music Theatre

It’s E. Faye Butler’s world and we should all be HONORED to live here.

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Review: FIVE MILE LAKE at Shattered Globe Theatre

Review: FIVE MILE LAKE at Shattered Globe Theatre

Returning to your hometown can be a strange feeling. Familiar haunts can feel alien with a little bit of distance, and routines that were once comforting can feel awkward, sometimes even hostile. It’s something that anyone who’s left the relatively comfortable confines of their hometown for wider pastures can attest to; that strange mix of the comfortable and the uncanny.

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Review: BECKY SHAW at Windy City Playhouse

Review: BECKY SHAW at Windy City Playhouse

Even in the best of circumstances, dating can present a shifting minefield of opportunity. The guy from the coffee house seems smart and kind, then you discover he has a room dedicated to his antique baby doll collection. The woman your friend said was a “10” makes you laugh within 10 seconds, then before the end of your first date she asks for her own set of keys to your apartment.

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Excellent Acting and Design Drive TimeLine’s BAKERSFIELD MIST

Excellent Acting and Design Drive TimeLine’s BAKERSFIELD MIST

On the surface, Stephen Sachs’ BAKERSFIELD MIST explores the artistic first impression—the “blink”, as Mike Nussbaum’s art scholar Lionel Percy calls it, or the moment when we experience the art before we’re able to come to judgment.

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Mercury Theater’s THE PRODUCERS Is an Uproarious Hit

Mercury Theater’s THE PRODUCERS Is an Uproarious Hit

As the secretary and wannabe stage actor Ulla sings in THE PRODUCERS, when you got it, flaunt it. And Mercury Theater’s production definitely got it.

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Porchlight’s Memorable DREAMGIRLS Will Never Leave You

Porchlight’s Memorable DREAMGIRLS Will Never Leave You

In Donica Lynn, Porchlight’s DREAMGIRLS has certainly found its own star. Lynn sings the hell out of the famous Act One showstopper “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”

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