Performing Arts
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'The Mistress Cycle' raises feminist hacklesDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Let me get this straight: Getting involved with a married man is a good thing? That's what "The Mistress Cycle" suggests during its final moments when five very talented...
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Marvel Comics writer returns to theater with 'Good Boys' premiereDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Robert Aguirre-Sacasa is best known for his work with Marvel Comics; he just completed a series on "Spider-Man" and is currently finishing up the story for a series in "...
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Worth the tripDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Hello 'Goodbye Girl' Director Gary Griffin returns to Oak Brook Terrace to direct "The Goodbye Girl," the musical version of Neil Simon's Academy Award-winning 1977 film...
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Compelling 'Three Hotels' gets powerful revivalDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - It never fails. Sure as snow in January, each December a show sneaks in under the wire to snag a spot on my list of the year's top theater productions. (For the complete...
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'Marrying' a long trip down the aisleDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - "Marrying Terry" is playwright Greg Opelka's first nonmusical play. Unfortunately, the inexperience shows through in the Nightingale Group's sluggish Chicago premiere a...
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Auditions, etc.Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - • Bollingbrook's Theatre-on-the-Hill holds auditions for "Escanaba in Love," Jeff Daniels' comedy sequel to "Escanaba in da Moonlight" about people living in Michigan's ...
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"Marrying" a very long engagementDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - "Marrying Terry" is playwright Greg Opelka's first non-musical play. Unfortunately, the inexperience shows through in the Nightingale Group's sluggish Chicago premiere a...
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Lyric Opera offers captivating new theater with 'Doctor Atomic'Dec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - The John Adams-Peter Sellars team has created another captivating night in the theater with "Doctor Atomic," which opened Friday night at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Commiss...
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'Mistress' breaks the cycle of no new musicalsDec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - Step into any conversation with a producer or theater owner about American music theater and eventually the topic gets around to the ongoing and catastrophic shortage of...
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Stage homage to Chaplin sparkles -- most of the timeDec 13, 2007 10:00 pm - The less Silent Theatre Company says, the better. Take "A Charlie Chaplin Christmas," the ensemble's homage to film's consummate clown. Comprised of Chaplinesque bits m...