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Enchanted Wisteria: Flowering Garden in Enchanted April 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
The magic words in Patrick Barber's adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's Enchanted April are "sunshine and wisteria"— the romantic prospect thereof spurring four Englishwomen to flee the gloom of their...
Dancing With Pythons: Creating Kaa in The Jungle Book 27 Jul 2013 | 08:01 am
There are the parade lions at Chinese New Year celebrations, of course, and the wind-sock whales in outdoor productions of Moby Dick. Just recently, audiences had an opportunity to pet wood-and-fabric...
A Flood Of Protest: Hydrospectacle in Oracle Theatre's Waiting for Lefty 27 Jul 2013 | 07:59 am
It's not as if Chicago audiences had never seen stage precipitation before. Steppenwolf's rain machine received almost as much press as its actors throughout the 1990s, and just last year, The Hypocri...
Swashbuckler Noir: A Three Musketeers for Adults 27 Jul 2013 | 07:58 am
The playbill assures us that this is The Three Musketeers, but the trio of military lifers and the young civilian seeking to join their ranks are not the familiar Anglo-Norman cavaliers of Hollywood r...
Staring Into The Glass: Mary-Arrchie Theatre's Glass Menagerie 27 Jul 2013 | 07:57 am
Whether you've seen The Glass Menagerie a hundred times before or only in the textbook, you are unprepared for the spectacle that greets you in this production. First you notice the glass—a dazzling a...
In The Belly Of The Whale: Full-Body Makeover in Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale 23 Apr 2013 | 10:49 pm
When we first see Charlie, he gives his weight as somewhere between 500 and 600 lbs. If this were merely a few extra pounds, a few extra layers of clothing—some of them quilted or waffle-textured, per...
2013 Non-Equity Jeff Award Nominations Announced 23 Apr 2013 | 06:04 pm
The Jeff Awards Committee announced 120 nominations in 25 categories of Non-Equity Jeff Awards for productions that opened between April 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013. The Non-Equity Awards honor excell...
Revising The Gospels: Finding Faith in The Book of Mormon 18 Apr 2013 | 09:30 pm
No one can deny the success of The Book of Mormon—the runaway hit musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, that is. The irony is that it isn't really about the gospel according to the Church of Latter-D...
Rock-And-Roll Will Never Die: Smokey Joe's Cafe Appeal Crosses Generations 15 Apr 2013 | 06:50 pm
There are some who declare that Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote the Rock-and-Roll songbook—or the first few chapters, at least—but nobody guessed that an evening of top-40 songs dating from the mi...
Skin Deep: Tattoos in TimeLine's Concerning Strange Devices From the Distant West 1 Apr 2013 | 06:49 pm
He is a Japanese ricksha driver, his body tattooed in blue and green and purple, and we can't take our eyes off him. This is because the other two characters onstage—a Gilded-Age American matron and a...
