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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 11, 2020
For the Love of Lyric fills the vocal void for now

Renée Fleming and friends offer a free genre-hopping virtual concert.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Lyric Opera, For the Love of Lyric, Renée Fleming, Heather Headley, J’Nai Bridges, Ailyn Pérez, Julia Bullock, Soloman Howard, Doug Peck, Chicago Children's Choir

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 15, 2017
The Scottsboro Boys, The Ghoul Exhibition, and nine more new theater reviews

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Arrow, The Arrow Cleans House, Neo-Futurists, Kurt Chiang, Lily Mooney, Red Theater Chicago, Beowulf: An Epic Quest of Music, Monsters, and Mead, Aaron Sawyer, Pavi Proczko, Brindin Sawyer, Brenda Scott Wlazlo, Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Lyric Opera, Georges Bizet, Carmen, Ekaterina Gubanova, Joseph Calleja, Rob Ashford, Eleonora Buratto, New American Folk Theatre, Deep in the Heart of Tuna, Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Tuna, Texas, Derek Van Barham, Anthony Whitaker, Grant Drager, Héctor Álvarez, The Ghoul Exhibition, Theatre Y, Melissa Lorraine, gun violence, Rhinofest, Runaways Lab Theatre, Gannon Reedy, Nathaniel Shane, Goddamn Geniuses: Legacy of Brillians, 1927 Solway conference, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, The History Boys, Alan Bennett, Laura Carney, Katherine Siegel, I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett, Mercury Theater, Jim DeSelm, Robert Hunt, Evan Tyrone Martin, Kevin Bellie, David Grapes, Todd Olson, Quest, The Actors Gymnasium, 500 Clown, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Leo Tolstoy, The Three Questions, Amanda Crockett, Kevin O'Donnell, Porchlight Music Theatre, The Scottsboro Boys, Kander and Ebb, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Samuel G. Roberson Jr., Florence Walker-Harris, Breon Arzell, David Thompson, Doug Peck, BoHo Theatre, Urinetown, Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, Aubrey Adams, Ariana Burks

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 22, 2016
The Goodman’s Wonderful Town is something less than wonderful

But Leonard Bernstein’s score and lead Bri Sudia still soar.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Wonderful Town, Goodman Theatre, Leonard Bernstein, Mary Zimmerman, Doug Peck, Bri Sudia, musicals, Todd Rosenthal, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jerome Chodorov, House Un-American Activities Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Lauren Molina, Singin' in the Rain, My Sister Eileen

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 4, 2016
Ten best bets for fall theater

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.
- Tags: Fall Preview, Mary Zimmerman, Doug Peck, Goodman Theatre, Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Wonderful Town, My Sister Eileen, Bri Sudia, Lauren Molina, Sophocles, Electra, the House of Atreus, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Aulis, Nicholas Rudall, Court Theatre, Sandra Marquez, Michael Pogue, Kate Fry, Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones, Dutchman, American Blues Theater, Darren Canady, TRANSit, Shattered Globe Theatre, True West, Sam Shepard, Black Button Eyes Productions, Amour, Michel Legrand, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shanghai Jingju Theatre, Peking opera, The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, Hamlet, Company Theatre Mumbai, Piya Behrupiya, Twelfth Night, Eduardo Pavez Goye, Foro Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Deaths, Spymonkey, The Happiest Place on Earth, Sideshow Theatre Company, Philip Dawkins, Scooby Don't, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Andrew Hinderaker, The Magic Play, Calamity West, Give It All Back, Idris Goodwin, How We Got On, Haven Theatre Company, Kristiana Rae Colón, Octagon, Jackalope Theatre, I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright, About Face Theatre, Delia Kropp, Nothing Without a Company, [Trans]formation, the Living Canvas, Cheers Live on Stage, Amy Poehler, Broadway in Chicago, Mat Smart, Naperville, The Royal Society of Antarctica, the Gift Theatre, Jeff Award, Aguijón Theater, Romeo y Julieta, Sándor Menéndez, Gerardo Cárdenas, Hand to God, Robert Askin, Victory Gardens Theater, Alex Weisman, Gary Griffin, Seret Scott

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 3, 2015
Court Theatre's The Secret Garden suggests you get over yourself

A musical with good advice
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Secret Garden, Court Theatre, Laura Kipnis, Title XI, Frances Hodgson Burnett, New York Times, Julie Shulevitz, Walt Whitman, Marsha Norman, Heidi Ettinger, Charles Newell, Lucy Simon, Doug Peck, Rob Lindley, Alka Nayyar, James Earl Jones II, Marya Grandy, Suzanne Gil, Elizabeth Ledo, Aubrey McGrath

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 7, 2014
TimeLine Theatre unearths another rarity in Juno

But there's a reason this musical's original Broadway run was short-lived.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Juno, TimeLine Theatre, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Baird Hall Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Fiorello!, Fiorello LaGuardia, Nick Bowling, Doug Peck, Joseph Stein, Marc Blitzstein, Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock, Irish Republican Army, Charlie Bentham, John Culbert, Alex Wren Meadows, Marya Grandy, Ron Rains, Jonny Stein, Emily Glick, Jonny Stein, Jordan Brown, Peter Oyloe

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 2, 2013
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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey

Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Pal Joey, Rodgers and Hart, New York Times, Brooks Atkinson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, John O'Hara, Lake Shore Drive, Cabaret, Chicago, Porchlight Music Theatre, Michael Weber, I'm Talking to My Pal, Callie Johnson, Gypsy Rose Lee, Matt Orlando, Kiss Me, Kate, Doug Peck, Jeremy Kahn, Brenda Didier, Bill Morey, Flower Garden of My Heart, Ziegfeld Follies, Susie McMonagle, Laura Savage, Sharriese Hamilton, Steven Pringle, Steven Pringle, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Gene Kelly, Adrian Aguilar, Jonathan Larson, Tick, Tick . . . Boom!, The Threepenny Opera, Paul Newman, The Hustler, Stage 773

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 21, 2012
It's the little things you miss about James Joyce's "The Dead"

Court Theatre's musical doesn't get to the subtle, transcendent heart of Joyce's short story
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, James Joyce, James Joyce's "The Dead", The Dead short story, Dubliners, Richard Nelson, Shaun Davey, Gabriel Conroy, Philip Earl Johnson, Court Theatre, Susie McMonagle, Rob Lindley, Doug Peck

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 26, 2011
At Court Theatre, it's Porgy and Bess in Neverland
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Court Theatre, Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Hayward, Dorothy Hayward, Virgil Thomson, Charles Newell, Doug Peck, James Earl Jones II, Alexis Rogers

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For the Love of Lyric fills the vocal void for now

Renée Fleming and friends offer a free genre-hopping virtual concert.

The Scottsboro Boys, The Ghoul Exhibition, and nine more new theater reviews

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.

The Goodman’s Wonderful Town is something less than wonderful

But Leonard Bernstein’s score and lead Bri Sudia still soar.

Ten best bets for fall theater

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.

Court Theatre's The Secret Garden suggests you get over yourself

A musical with good advice

TimeLine Theatre unearths another rarity in Juno

But there's a reason this musical's original Broadway run was short-lived.

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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey

Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.

It's the little things you miss about James Joyce's "The Dead"

Court Theatre's musical doesn't get to the subtle, transcendent heart of Joyce's short story

At Court Theatre, it's Porgy and Bess in Neverland

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Renée Fleming and friends offer a free genre-hopping virtual concert.

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.

But Leonard Bernstein’s score and lead Bri Sudia still soar.

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.

A musical with good advice

But there's a reason this musical's original Broadway run was short-lived.

Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.

Court Theatre's musical doesn't get to the subtle, transcendent heart of Joyce's short story

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