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Theater Review: THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER (Lookingglass)
STEADFAST THEATER This “soldier” is well worth saluting: There’s an enchanting Christmas Pantomime streaming from Michigan Avenue in Chicago ’” Lookingglass Theatre Company’s jewel-box of a holiday divertissement. Transformed by music, dance and spectacle more than by words and lyrics, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale from 1838, is the perfect recipient for director…
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Theater Review: THE PROJECT(S) (Stage Left Theater, Chicago)
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It’s a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli and documentarian Joshua Jaeger created a crash course and action meditation on Chicago’s infam0us housing projects. Inspired…
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Theater Preview: THE MAGIC PARLOUR AT HOME (New Virtual Show by Chicago’s Dennis Watkins)
JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can’t be explained? Perhaps it’s more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There’s a presence too: Magic evokes a child-like sense of wonder in the oldest adults, rewarding their imagination more than their ignorance. At least that’s the working philosophy of House…
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Theater Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (National Tour)
THE PLAY ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES WRONG The title of this play is brutally honest ’” and you can’t say you weren’t warned. In the style of Monty Python and Michael Frayn’s farce Noises Off (an infinitely cleverer romp), The Play That Goes Wrong, a 2015 London hit written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and…
Theater Review: CHURCH HURT (Red Theater / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | November 5, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: THE COTTAGE (North Coast Repertory Theatre / Solana Beach)
by Milo Shapiro | November 3, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS (Center REP / Walnut Creek)
by Chuck Louden | November 3, 2026
in San Francisco
(Bay Area), TheaterTheater Review: KING HEDLEY II (City Lit Theater / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | November 2, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: THE MINUTES (CV Rep / Cathedral City)
by Jason Mannino | November 2, 2026
in Palm Springs
(Coachella Valley), TheaterTheater Review: BETRAYAL (Marin Theatre / Mill Valley)
by Chuck Louden | November 2, 2026
in Theater, Theater-San Francisco / Bay AreaOff-Broadway Review: WAITING FOR LEFTY (Classic Stage Company)
by Alex Simmons | November 2, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: CARMELA FULL OF WISHES (Chicago Children’s Theatre)
by Croydon Fernandes | November 2, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterDance Preview: DANCE ME — THE MUSIC OF LEONARD COHEN (Ballets Jazz Montréal / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | November 1, 2026
in Chicago, Dance, Tours
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