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There’s plenty to like about this Broadway in Chicago road tour theatrical extravaganza loosely based on the true-life story of a woman claiming to be the surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Running now through April 7, 2019 at the Nederlander Theater on …
This episode of Authors Showcase features author Barbara Barnett speaking about and reading from her novel “Apothecary’s Curse” set partly on the Chicago area and partly n Victorian London. Listen to the podcast above or watch the video recorded version below. The Chicago version …
This version of “A Bronx Tale” based on an off-Broadway one-man play by Chazz Palmintiri and later turned into the popular 1993 Robert De Niro movie of the same name has added music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Glenn Slater to produce a very successful adaptation appearing in Chicago through March 24, 2019 at the Nederlander Theater as part of the National Touring Company.
Read the entire review by Reno Lovison at Chicago Theater and Arts or listen to the podcast version above.
Review Summary: “The Choir of Man” at the Broadway Playhouse at Chicago’s Water Tower Place mall on Michigan Avenue is more boy band concert than Broadway musical. Featuring nine very energetic, vocally talented, male singers purported to be “regulars” at a traditional Irish Pub named …
Jodie Jacobs of ChicagoTheaterandArts.com and Reno Lovison of ChicagoBroadcastingNetwork.com got together to produce a podcast about the plays they reviewed in 2018. Including those plays they found to be intelligent and thought-provoking as well as those that were just fun and entertaining.
Bob (H.B. Ward) and Jennifer (Linda Reiter) Jones are surprised to meet their new neighbors, Pony (Cortney McKenna), and John ( Joseph Wiens) who also share the same last name.
The two couples have an ongoing series of absurd conversations that actually do get to the core of what they want to express while avoiding or at least minimizing any straightforward communication.
Listen to the entire audio / podcast review by Reno Lovison in the pod-o-matic player above or visit ChicagoTheaterandArts.com to read this and other Chicago theater reviews. (Photo by Evan Hanover)
Chicago is home to approximately 150,000 individuals who identify as Asian. This February was the beginning of the Lunar New Year hailed as The Year of the Pig according to the Chinese Zodiac. According to TheChineseZodiac.org, this is a great year to make money, and …
Until now I have generally dedicated one podcast to one review. In this episode, I thought I would do something a little different and talk about two plays I recently reviewed for ChicagoTheaterandArts.com. The first is “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at the Greenhouse Theatre Center …
Until recently Rosalind Franklin had gone virtually un-credited for her contribution to the discovery revealing the structure of DNA to be a double helix.
The discovery ultimately earned Franklin’s research colleague Maurice Wilkins and two rival collaborators James Watson and Francis Crick the Nobel Prize.
“Photograph 51” onstage at the Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, through Feb. 23, 2019 written by Anna Ziegler and Directed by Vanessa Stalling at the Court Theatre is a snapshot of the circumstance that led to what has been hailed as one of the greatest discoveries all time.
Listen to the entire review by Reno Lovison above or read it at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com
Stage Trailer for “Photograph 51” at the Court Theatre.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting an encore series through January 31, 2019 of its attractively updated version of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” directed by Richard Jones which launched the 2018/2019 season accompanied by the very capable Lyric Orchestra under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan. …
The world premiere of “La Ruta” at the Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago by playwright Isaac Gomez has figuratively commandeered a bus transporting “maquila” workers to and from their jobs in Juarez, pointing its headlights into the vast darkness to expose the despair and anguish of the …
We like to emphasize events and activities actually within the city limits but Music Theater Works in Evanston at the Cahn Auditorium is just outside Chicago on the northside and steps from the Northwestern campus.
Running through December 31, 2018.
The company formerly known as Light Opera Works has put together a visually stunning production of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale musical mashup “Into the Woods.”
Read the entire review with cast references at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com or listen to the podcast above.