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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 9, 2019
Richard III walks into a karaoke bar . . .

Shakespeare's villain goes flat in Eclectic Full Contact's production.
- By Irene Hsiao
- Tags: Theater Review, Richard III, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Natividad Uehara, Andrew Pond

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 22, 2018
The farce Fuddy Meers makes a critic long for amnesia

None of the characters can be trusted, empathized with, or even tolerated for very long.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Fuddy Meers, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, David Lindsay-Abaire, Katherine Siegel, amnesia, cognitive difficulties, stroke

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 4, 2017
Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Gina Gionfriddo, Becky Shaw, Windy City Playhouse, Scott Weinstein, Rock of Ages, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Bewitched, Bewildered, Ron Weaver, Aaron Benham, Brigitte Ditmars, Fun Home, Victory Gardens Theater, Alison Bechdel, Gary Griffin, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Danni Smith and Sage Elliott Harper, Stella Rose Hoyt, Hannah Starr, Sage Elliott Harper, Rob Lindley, McKinley Carter, Akvavit Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts & Zombies, Ibsen's Ghosts, Gustav Tegby, Breahan Pautsch, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amber Sallis, Michael Woods, David Belew, Monster Club, Annoyance Theatre, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Dutch East Indies, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Cornservatory, Corn Productions, Rocky IV, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Allison Reinke, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Paul Stroili, The Trojan Women, Euripides, Three Crows Theatre, Troy, Hector, Battle of Troy, Cassandra, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Duncan, Judith Laughlin, Selena Lopez, Andromache, Worst of All/Peor de Todas, Water People Theater, National Museum of Mexican Art, Juan Jose Martín, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Iraida Tapia, Raquel Rios, Rebeca Alemán, Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, You're a Good Man, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Vampyre, John William Polidori, Maureen Monahan, Mark Walsh

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 7, 2017
Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Leonard Bernstein, Candide, Leibniz, Voltaire, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Music Theater Works, Light Opera Works, Rudy Hogenmiller, John Caird, Gary Alexander, Ben Barker, Cecilia Iole, Roger L. Bingaman, Cunegonde, Clued In: An Improvised Murder Mystery, Second City, Judy's Beat Lounge, Gidion's Knot, Johnna Adams, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Michelle Annette, Julie Partyka, Katherine Siegel, Hair, Lauren Rawitz, Noah Spiegel-Blum, Her Majesty's Will, Robert Kauzlaric, David Blixt, Lifeline Theatre, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Peter Greenberg, Improvised Jane Austen, Ana Silva, Kate Parker, Stephanie Jones, King Liz, Windy City Playhouse, Chuck Smith, Lanice Shelley, Eric Gerard, Fernanda Coppel, Not Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian Woman by Desire, Ada Cheng, Ragtime musical, Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty, E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime, Scott Weinstein, Denzel Tsopnang, Richard III, Fury Theatre, Nathan Agin, David Gonzalez, Mark Dodge, Indian Boundary Park, Save Ferris: The Unofficial Sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Under the Gun Theater, Christian Missonak, Andrew Bentley, Kayla Cole, Shrimp Boys Present: Seinfeld, Shrimp Boys, Seinfeld

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, Performing Arts Feature Feb 25, 2016
Black Ensemble's Doo Wop Shoo Bop, Quest Theatre's All the World's a Stage, and eight more stage shows to see now

Revivals are back—even Sister Act.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Black Ensemble Theater, Doo Wop Shoo Bop, Those Sensational Soulful 60s, Jackie Taylor, jukebox musicals, All the World's a Stage, Andrew Park, Quest Theatre Ensemble, seven ages of man, doo-wop, I & You, Jackalope Theatre Company, the Yard, Senn Arts Magnet School, Tevion Lanier, Olivia Shine, Walt Whitman, In a Word, Strawdog Theatre, Lauren Yee, Jess McLeod, Mary Winn Heider, Rebecca Sohn, Shirley Lame, My Solo Show of All Duets, the Annoyance, T.J. Shanoff, Muse of Fire, Genesis Theatricals, Redtwist Theatre, Auschwitz, Jake Rosenberg, Rock Baby Rock, Hard Rock Cafe, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lance Lipinsky, Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things, Pygmalion, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Katherine Siegel, Patrick Iven, Sister Act, Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire, Whoopi Goldberg, Don Stephenson, Marissa Zaremba, Nancy Missimi, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Ziryab, the Songbird of Andalusia, Ronnie Malley, Silk Road Rising

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 25, 2015
Ain't Misbehavin', Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Ain't Misbehavin', Porchlight Music Theatre, Fats Waller, Angina Pectoris, Shpiel Performing Identity, Based on a True Story, Nora Dunn, Under the Gun Theater, Julia Sweeney, D.B. Sweeney, Paul Meincke, A Christmas Carol: The Musical, Quest Theatre, A Christmas Carol, Goodman Theatre, Larry Yando, Incident at Vichy, Redtwist Theatre, Arthur Miller, No More Sad Things, Elly Green, Sideshow Theatre, The House Theatre of Chicago, The Nutcracker, Erik Jan Hanussen, Palace of the Occult, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, ShawChicago, Private Lives, Noël Coward, Sad Songs for Bad People, Rough House Puppet Theatre, The Santaland Diaries, David Sedaris, Mitchell Fain, Tea, Velina Hasu Houston, Prologue Theatre

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Richard III walks into a karaoke bar . . .

Shakespeare's villain goes flat in Eclectic Full Contact's production.

The farce Fuddy Meers makes a critic long for amnesia

None of the characters can be trusted, empathized with, or even tolerated for very long.

Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.

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.

Black Ensemble's Doo Wop Shoo Bop, Quest Theatre's All the World's a Stage, and eight more stage shows to see now

Revivals are back—even Sister Act.

Ain't Misbehavin', Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare

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Richard III walks into a karaoke bar . . .

Shakespeare's villain goes flat in Eclectic Full Contact's production.

The farce Fuddy Meers makes a critic long for amnesia

None of the characters can be trusted, empathized with, or even tolerated for very long.

Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Candide, Gidion's Knot, and ten more stage shows to see now

A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein's operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week's best bets.

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.

Black Ensemble's Doo Wop Shoo Bop, Quest Theatre's All the World's a Stage, and eight more stage shows to see now

Revivals are back—even Sister Act.

Ain't Misbehavin', Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy, and 11 more new reviews

Among them, a Nutcracker sans bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies and other holiday fare

Other Searches