Porchlight’s production is fun, but lacks depth.
Tag: rock and roll
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Why can’t Mayor Rahm be more like Karen Lewis?
Love her or hate her, Karen Lewis’s worldview is more like the average Chicagoan’s than Mayor Rahm’s Romney-like policies.
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20th Century Man: An Evening With Ray Davies
Rock and roller Ray Davies’s almost-solo show is part concert and part monologue–and at its best when it fuses the two forms into fluid music theater. The generously long two-act evening focuses on the checkered career of Davies’s band, the Kinks: humble beginnings (jamming on an eight-watt amp), paranoid passages (a U.S. tour plagued by […]
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Rock of ages: talkin’ bout two generations
The phenomenal and unexpected success of Eric Clapton’s Unplugged record has instigated a muted revolution in the record industry. The music marketplace is currently saturating with a soporific tide of rock and roll at its most laid back. Paul McCartney, Neil Young, and Rod Stewart, among others, have all mothballed their amps, buffed their acoustic […]