Politics has always been a “smelly kitchen,” to borrow a phrase from Jean Anouilh’s version of Antigone. But in 1933, two new cooks entered that kitchen. And the recipes they came up with continue to befoul the air of American elections. Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker (a widow and a married man who eventually became […]
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Some favorite things
Banish all thoughts of Julie Andrews and the classic film The Sound of Music and take in the stage version at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. From top to bottom, from eldest to first-grader Reese Bella, the voices are stunning. Whether standards such as “My Favorite Things” or the lesser-known “How Can Love Survive,” the songs […]
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Oliver! earns its exclamation point at Marriott
The Dickensian melodrama-turned-musical features an outstanding ensemble.
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Oslo paints a picture of the personal touch in international relations
The Tony-winning play gets a smart and timely local premiere from TimeLine.
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Janet Ulrich Brooks leads a superb Master Class
Her magnetic, mercurial performance anchors TimeLine’s portrait of Maria Callas.
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TimeLine Theatre’s The Audience is too admiring for the audience’s good
Peter Morgan’s drama gives us a Queen Elizabeth II dull in her dutifulness.
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TimeLine Theatre goes to Tiananmen Square
Chimerica searches for the story behind a memorialized protester—and a truer account of U.S.-Chinese relations.
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Timeline Theatre’s based-on-fact play makes a contradictory case
Danny Casolaro Died for You, TimeLine Theatre’s based-on-fact play, makes a contradictory case.
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TimeLine Theatre unearths another rarity in Juno
TimeLine Theatre unearths Juno, a short-lived Broadway musical based on a play by Sean O’Casey.
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But is The Normal Heart good?
TimeLine Theatre gets Larry Kramer’s important The Normal Heart pumping.
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The enduring importance of The Normal Heart
The enduring importance of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart
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Bad cop, bad cop
My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching, look at ugly chapters in Chicago history
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Small is functional
Too intimate for Broadway, A Catered Affair gets right-sized by Porchlight Music Theatre
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Cold War frenemies
Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods
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TimeLine Theatre Company Brings Back the Golden Age of Ink
Chicago’s an eight-newspaper town in Hecht and MacArthur’s The Front Page.