Tuesday, 06 April 2010 12:43
Beauty and the Beast at Cadillac Palace - Kim Katz Quick Pick
Written by Kimberly Katz
Am I the only person who cries during Beauty and the Beast? Not when Belle and the Beast get together - but when Belle trades her life to save her quirky, inventor father from the Beast’s cold dungeon. I just love this story for little girls. Of all the popular…
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It is a chilly Irish seaside town, he loves her, and she loves him but he drives her away with his chilly intellectual life view and marries a more compliant version of her, and she marries a more life loving but less intelligent version of him. Forty years later he…
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:26
Theatre on the Hill’s “The Elephant Man” is Simply Wonderful
Written by Ken Payne
Director Craig Engel’s latest production to come to Bolingbrook’s Theatre on the Hill (TOTH) is a story many are familiar with, and, since presented with such a timeless magic about it, is a performance that can certainly be enjoyed by everyone once again. “The Elephant Man” a story of a…
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:34
Count on it: Number of People shines at Piven Theater
Written by Kendall Royzen
Oscar Wilde once said “Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.” For Leo Gold, that diary is filled with an anguish that has haunted his memories and greatly impacted his life. Battling with Alzheimer’s and the recent death of his wife, retired statistician Leo Gold attempts…
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 12:24
“Trust” is an important play, compelling and seductively disturbing
Written by Kimberly Katz
Phillip R. Smith and Allison Torem star in Lookingglass' "Trust" directed by David Schwimmer and Heidi Stillman When you enter the lobby of Lookingglass Theater to see the play “Trust” which details the rape of a 14 year old girl by an internet pedophile, you will see a table set…
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 12:10
High Romance, Masterfully Delivered “An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin”
Written by Kimberly Katz
“An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin” You may ask, what is so entertaining about two singer/actors, simply dressed all in black with nothing on stage except a pianist, bass player and thirty or so antique stage lanterns? Plenty, when the two accomplished singer/actors are Toni Award winners…
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Seeing the play Twelve Angry Men, you get exactly that: twelve angry men. Twelve jurors locked in a room on a scorching summer day, wiping sweat from their necks and foreheads, fanning themselves with their hats, gulping down water -- it's the hottest day of the year onstage, and sitting there in…
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 20:23
A Fetching New Musical: A Review of 101 Dalmatians
Written by Kendall Hartenstine
Wednesday night I ventured to the historic Cadillac Theatre to partake in some four legged fun at the 101 Dalmatians Musical (I promise I will keep the dog puns/terminology to a bare minimum in this review). Filled with cartoonish-like sets, actors playing humans on stilts and likable songs from Dennis…
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Sunday, 14 February 2010 11:10
Take a Picture, it will last Longer: “I Am a Camera” explores photography’s impact
Written by Kendall Royzen
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what happens when you combine photography with live art? This is one of the core questions that is explored in the new Neo-Futurist play “I Am a Camera” written and directed by Greg Allen. One of the great things about…
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:56
Two Plays Get Dominated by One Heavyweight Actor, Brian Dennehy
Written by Kimberly Katz
Watching Brian Dennehy, still as handsome, graceful and light on his feet at 71 as at 51, I have to ask myself in disbelief, has it really been twenty years since I last saw him perform on the Goodman stage in “The Iceman Cometh”? It seems just like yesterday. The…
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Theatre in Review
Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:25
Tomorrow's only a day away, but Annie won't be in Chicago for long
Written by Kendall Royzen
The story of Annie, the optimistic red-headed orphan, is one that still resonates with the same power and charm today as it did when it melted the hearts of theater-goers on Broadway in 1977...
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Theatre in Review
Once again making a triumphant return to Chicago is Mamma Mia!, now playing at the Rosemont Theatre (5400 N. River Road, Rosemont) through Sunday, January 24th. With a national touring cast that is as energetic as they were talented, Mamma Mia is a wild ride full of catchy ABBA songs,…
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Director David Catlin successfully brings Greek mythology to the stage in Lookingglass Theatre’s production of “Icarus”, the story of a boy with wax wings who flew too close to the sun and, well, you can probably guess how that turned out. Lindsey Whiting splendidly plays the young Icarus while other…
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