Review: The Mikado/The Hypocrites
RECOMMENDED The problem that any company encounters when producing “The Mikado” is—to put it bluntly—it’s kinda sorta maybe pretty undeniably racist. And as it is a show set in Japan that was written...
View ArticleReview: The Pirates of Penzance/The Hypocrites
RECOMMENDED I’m not the first to say this, and I certainly won’t be the last: Go to The Hypocrites’ revival of their 2010 staging of “The Pirates of Penzance.” Don’t be put off by their unprepossessing...
View ArticlePlayers 2015: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago
The steady expansion of the performing arts in Chicago continues its marvelous pace, with more and better theater, dance, comedy and opera gracing more and better stages each passing year. The upward...
View ArticleReview: All Our Tragic/The Hypocrites
RECOMMENDED One might think that Sean Graney’s title for his play/adaptation/mashup/opus “All Our Tragic” is a bit of playful hyperbole. But nope. It’s all in there. From Prometheus on the rock to...
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Open Me Carefully: A Review of The Belle of Amherst at Court Theatre
Court Theatre's production of this 1976 play about the poet Emily Dickinson falls short of a complete portrait of the complex Massachusetts native.
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Caught Up: A Review of The Mousetrap at Court Theatre
The characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
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