Chicago Theatre Addict’s TOP TEN of 2011
Hollis Resnik in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “Follies” Why, yes! It’s yet *another* top 10 list! This year I was actually on top of shit and maintained an honest-to-god spreadsheet of all the shows...
View ArticleHuffington Post: ‘Being Shakespeare’ at Broadway Playhouse
Simon Callow’s one-man show, Being Shakespeare, took the U.K. by storm and is now making a short stop at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s World’s Stage Series....
View ArticleChicago Like a Local: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Chicago Shakespeare Theater...
The cast of ChiShakes’ “Beauty and the Beast.” It’s clear, based on yesterday’s sold-out performance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, that Chicago Shakespeare Theatre has a hit. From the moment Belle...
View Article2012 Equity Jeff nominations: A Chicago Theatre Addict’s reactions
So, I woke up from a restless sleep early this morning, checked my phone and noticed that the 2012 Equity Jeff Awards had been announced. And my first impression was: wow. No Nathan Lane. Yes, the Jeff...
View ArticleChicago Shakespeare Theater’s stirring ‘Sunday in the Park with George’
Ok — let’s get to the point(alism): Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Sunday in the Park with George is nothing short of a triumph. Sunday, which, in act one, is loosely based on the life of 19th century...
View ArticleA modern and timeless ‘Julius Caesar’ at Chicago Shakes
As you enter Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Court Theater to see English director Jonathan Munby’s take on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, you know you’re in for something electric, bold and in-your-face....
View ArticleChicago Shakes to stage ‘Road Show’ and ‘Gypsy’ (cue the requisite...
Time Out Chicago announces that Chicago Shakespeare Theater will produce that American musical comedy classic, Gypsy, along with Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show, a show that got one of its many starts at...
View ArticleHuffPo Review: CST’s Sleepy ‘Cyrano’ Lacks Passion
High hopes surrounded Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Cyrano de Bergerac, the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand translated for the stage by Anthony Burgess. This is Harry Groener’s return to CST following his...
View ArticleA high-stakes ‘Road Show’ still struggles to find its way
Andrew Rothenberg, McKinley Carter, Michael Aaron Lindner and Anne Gunn in ChiShakes’ “Road Show.” Photo by Liz Lauren “Art isn’t easy,” sings the frustrated artist George in Stephen Sondheim’s...
View ArticleA satisfying ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at Chicago Shakes
Editor’s note: I had to bow out of reviewing this production due to a massive sinus infection, but the lovely book nerd Jamie Prahl, who is a huge fan of Jane Austen’s, stepped in to cover. Take it...
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