A collection of some of my Chicago-area theatre reviews**:
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche @ The New Colony
The 101 Dalmatians Musical @ The Cadillac Palace
24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival @ Pegasus Players
A Chorus Line @ Marriott Theatre
A Christmas Carol @ The Goodman Theatre
A Klingon Christmas Carol @ Commedia Beauregard (at the Greenhouse Theatre Center)
A Minister’s Wife @ Writers’ Theatre*
A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas @ Emerald City Children’s Theatre
A Parallelogram @ Steppenwolf Theatre
A Twist of Water @ The Mercury Theater
A Walk in the Woods @ TimeLine Theatre Company
Abe’s in a Bad Way @ Free Street Theatre
All the Fame of Lofty Deeds @ The House Theatre of Chicago
Alligator @ Brikenbrak Theatre Project
American Buffalo @ Steppenwolf Theatre
American Lit @ Annoyance Theatre
An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin @ The Cadillac Palace
Anton in Show Business @ Theatre Building Chicago
As You Like It @ Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
August: Osage County @ Cadillac Palace
Bash @ Brikenbrak Theatre Project
Beauty and the Beast @ The Cadillac Palace
Being Harold Pinter @ Belarus Free Theatre
Billy Elliot the Musical @ The Oriental Theatre
Black Watch @ The Broadway Armory presented by National Theatre of Scotland
Blue Man Group @ Briar Street Theatre
Buried Child @ Shattered Globe Theatre*
Calls to Blood @ The New Colony
Caroline, or Change @ The Court Theatre
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Raven Theatre
Chekhov’s Shorts @ St. Sebastian Players
Chicago @ The Oriental Theatre
Chinglish @ The Goodman Theatre
Church/Pullman, WA @ Red Tape Theatre
Cirque Shanghai: Cloud 9 @ Navy Pier Pepsi Skyline Theatre
Corazon de Manzana @ Mortar Theatre
Dead Letter Office @ Dog & Pony Theatre
Death of a Salesman @ Raven Theatre
Desire Under the Elms @ The Goodman
Dixie’s Tupperware Party @ Royal George Theatre Cabaret
Don’t Dress For Dinner @ Royal George Theatre
Doubt @ The Cadillac Palace Theatre
Dream of a Common Language @ Prologue Theatre Company
Dreamgirls @ The Cadillac Palace
Earth: TTFN?! @ The Greenhouse Theatre Center*
Educating Rita @ Shattered Globe
En Route @ One Step at a Time Like This, presented by Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Entertaining Mr. Sloane @ Project 891 Theatre Company
Equus @ Ludicrous Theatre Company
Escape from the Halsburg Boys Choir @ The Ruckus Theatre
Eurydice @ Filament Theatre Ensemble
Family Devotions @ Halcyon Theatre Company
Festen @ Steep Theatre Company
Follies @ Actors Theatre Company
Frost/Nixon @ TimeLine Theatre Company
Fucking Men @ Bailiwick Chicago
Fuerza Bruta @ The Auditorium Theatre
Funny Girl @ Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace
God of Carnage @ Goodman Theatre
Grey Gardens @ Northlight Theatre
Hamlet @ DreamLogic Theatreworks
Heddatron @ Sideshow Theatre Company
Hephaestus @ Lookingglass/Goodman Theatre
Here Where It’s Safe @ Stage Left Theatre
Hideous Progeny @ LiveWire Chicago Theatre
Hunting and Gathering @ Theatre Seven of Chicago
I Am a Camera @ The Neo-Futurists
I Am Montana @ Mortar Theatre Company
In the Heigts @ The Cadillac Palace Theatre*
In the Next Room or the vibrator play @ Victory Gardens
Inherit the Whole @ Mortar Theatre
Into the Woods @ Porchlight Music Theatre
Iphigeneia at Aulis @ Lights Out Theatre Company
Jersey Boys @ Bank of America Theatre*
Krapp’s Last Tape @ Signal Ensemble Theatre
Legally Blonde @ The Oriental Theatre
Les Enfants Terribles – Prom Night @ Red Tape Theatre
Les Misérables @ The Cadillac Palace
Lettice and Lovage @ Redtwist Theatre*
LET X @ Nothing Special Productions
Little Shop of Horros @ La Costa Theatre
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom @ Court Theatre
Madama Butterfly @ Lyric Opera
Mame @ Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace
Man of La Mancha @ Theo Ubique*
Mary Poppins @ The Cadillac Palace
Massacre (Sing to Your Children) @ The Goodman Theatre
Merrily We Roll Along @ The Music Theatre Company
Million Dollar Quartet @ Apollo Theatre
Middletown @ Steppenwolf Theatre
Mother Bear @ Mortar Theatre Company
Mrs. Caliban @ Lifeline Theatre
Murder for Two — A Killer Musical @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
My Brother’s Keeper (The Story of the Nicholas Brothers) @ Black Ensemble Theater
Next to Normal @ Bank of America Theatre
Nightmare in Paradise 2: Another Nightmare in Paradise…in 3-D! @ Nothing Special Productions
Obscura: a voyeuristic love story @ Red Tape Theatre
Pancake Breakfast @ The New Colony
Passion @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Peter Pan @ The threesixty° theatre at the Freedom Center
Porgy and Bess @ Court Theatre
Private Lives @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater*
Pussy on the House @ Hell in a Handbag
Radium Girls @ The Side Project
Return to Haifa @ Next Theatre
Ribbon Around a Bomb @ Prologue Theatre Ensemble
Rock of Ages @ Bank of America Theatre
Rocky Horor Show @ Ludicrous Theatre Company
Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer @ Mary’s Attic*
Run-of-the-Mill @ Currently Untitled Theatre
SALEM! The Musical @ Annoyance Theatre
San Francisco Ballet @ Harris Theatre
Sex @ Prologue Theatre Company
Sex Marks the Spot @ Theatre Building Chicago
Sex with Strangers @ Steppenwolf Theatre
Shadowlands @ Provision Theater Company
Shoot Faster, Dear Brother, I’m Dying! @ The Apollo Studio Theatre
Shrek the Musical @ The Cadillac Palace Theatre
Sketchbook X @ The Chopin Theatre
Sky’s the Limit (Weather Permitting) @ Second City
Song for a Future Generation @ Lights Out Theatre Company
Songs for a New World @ Bohemian Theatre Ensamble
Souvenir @ Northlight Theatre*
Spamalot @ Drury Lane Oakbrook
Spoon River Anthology @ St. Sebastian Players
Spring Awakening @ Oriental Theatre
Stage Kiss @ The Goodman Theatre
State of the Union @ Strawdog Theatre Company
Stomp @ Bank of America Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George @ Porchlight Music Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George @ Village Players*
Sweeney Todd @ Drury Lane Oakbrook
Tell Me on a Sunday @ Bailiwick
That Sordid Little Story @ The New Colony
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ Drury Lane Water Tower
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ Marriott Theatre*
The 39 Steps @ Bank of America Theatre
The Addams Family @ The Oriental Theatre*
The Aventures of Pinocchio @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The Armageddon Dance Party @ Nothing Special Productions
The Beauty Queen of Leenane @ Shattered Globe Theatre
The Conquest of the South Pole @ Strawdog Theatre
The Dastardly Ficus, and Other Comedic Tales of Woe and Misery @ Chopin Theatre
The Detective’s Wife @ Writers’ Theatre
The Drowsy Chaperone @ Marriott Theatre
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity @ Victory Gardens*
The Fantasticks @ Porchlight Music Theatre*
The Farnsworth Invention @ Timeline Theatre
The Good Negro @ The Goodman Theatre
The Gospel According to James @ Victory Gardens
The House on Mango Street @ Steppenwolf Theatre
The Hot L Baltimore @ Steppenwolf Theatre
The King and I @ Porchlight Music Theatre
The Light in the Piazza @ Marriott Theatre*
The Madness of George III @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The Man Who Was Thursday @ New Leaf Theatre
The Marvelous Wonderettes @ Northlight Theatre*
The Message is in the Music @ Black Ensemble Theater
The Mystery of Irma Vep @ Court Theatre*
The Original Grease @ American Theater Company
The Pillowman @ Redtwist Theatre*
The Real Inspector Hound @ Signal Ensemble Theatre
The Real Thing @ Saint Sebastian Players
The Red Hood @ The Side Project
The Rise and Fall of the Mad King of Scotland @ Nothing Special Productions
The Samaritan Syndrome @ Brikenbrak Theatre Project
The Seagull @ The Goodman Theatre
The Sins of Sor Juana @ The Goodman Theatre
The Story of My Life @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (presented by Chicago Muse)
The Trinity River Plays @ The Goodman Theatre
The Walls @ Steppenwolf’s Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
The Who’s Tommy @ Circle Theatre
The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret @ Point of Contention/BoHo Theatre*
Thieves Like Us @ The House Theatre of Chicago
Theories of the Sun @ Sideshow Theatre Company
Turn of the Century @ The Goodman Theatre
Traces @ The Broadway Playhouse
Tragedy: a tragedy @ Red Tape Theatre Company
Tupperware: An American Musical Fable @ New Colony*
Under America @ Mortar Theatre
Vincent’s Yellow @ Serendipity Theatre Ensemble
Vanishing Points @ Point of Contention
War With the Newts @ Next Theatre
White Noise @ Royal George Theatre
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf @ Steppenwolf Theatre
Wicked @ The Cadillac Palace Theatre
Wilson Wants It All @ The House Theatre of Chicago
Wolf @ Brikenbrak Theatre Company
Yeast Nation @ American Theater Company
Yerma @ Bohemian Theatre Ensemble
Xanadu @ Drury Lane Water Tower
And that’s just a sample of stuff from years of blogging. Click here for all theatre-related posts.
*Posted on sites outside of Chicago Theatre Addict
**Lame disclaimer: In keeping with the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations that unfairly discriminates against bloggers, who are now required by law to disclose when they have received anything of value they might write about, please note that I usually receive a press ticket for shows I write about.
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[...] Robertianish Reviews Posted by: robertian | May 29|09 [...]
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There are $25 student and senior rush seats available and you can also save $20 on a pair of tickets starting at $15. (July 13 – 18 performances)