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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Review: Love and Human Remains/Cor Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED Playwright Brad Fraser examines the nature of true love through the tortured lens of fetishism, idolatry and narcissism in his spectacularly vivid play “Love and Human Remains.…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM
Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Secret Garden/Court Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED If winter plunged directly into summer and robbed us of a gentle rebirth, Court Theatre’s very new production of “The Secret Garden” reawakens optimism in life, and the sta…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:30PM
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Beyond Fable: The Evolution of Community Performance at the Pivot Arts Festival by Aaron Hunt

By Aaron Hunt In May 2012, Julieanne Ehre and Katy Collins co-produced what they coined a “Fable Festival” in Edgewater. Cafes, empty storefronts and restaurants hosted such delectable, …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PM
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Review: The Drowsy Chaperone/Metropolis Performing Arts Centre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED It all began with a stag party skit, which explains the madcap, innuendo-filled, my-uncle’s-got-a-barn quality that blessedly remains, despite Broadway spit-and-polish. Bob Mar…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:45AM
Friday, May 15, 2015

Review: Jersey Boys/Broadway In Chicago by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED The Baby Boomers grew up in one of the longest periods of affluence in American history, lulled by a soundtrack of Elvis, Johnny Cash, ABBA and Frankie Valli. The Great Recession…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:30PM
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Review: Big Fish/Theatre at the Center by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED If you saw the pre-Broadway, Chicago run of “Big Fish” and thought it needed scissors and paste, or read the tepid New York reviews, mourning a loss of opportunity when compa…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM
Friday, May 1, 2015

Review: Sense and Sensibility/Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED The brilliance of writer/composer/lyricist and Tony nominee Paul Gordon, the tremulous set design of Kevin Depinet, and Donald Holder’s mystic lighting, guided by director Barb…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:25AM
Monday, April 27, 2015

Review: A Coffin in Egypt/Chicago Opera Theater by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED The mythical line between opera and musical theater further fades with Chicago Opera Theater’s mounting of “A Coffin in Egypt.” Is it really an opera, as advertised? The co…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AM
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Review: All’s Well That Ends Well/Stage Left Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED If “All’s Well That Ends Well” is, as some critics insist, a “problem comedy,” then director Drew Martin, by setting the play in the Mafia-land of television’s popula…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Review: The Bloodhound Law/City Lit Theater Company by Aaron Hunt

  RECOMMENDED Playwright Kristine Thatcher has written an important play, and it has landed in the hands of exactly the right theater company for its world premiere. Commissioned and pr…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AM
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Review: Lips Together, Teeth Apart/Eclipse Theatre Company by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED Since their 1997/98 season, Eclipse Theatre Company has focused on one particular playwright for all of their adventures, or re-visited a group of previously examined authors for…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:45PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Review: Anything Goes/Marriott Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED It’s always an event when Chicagoland can steal director/choreographer Marc Robin away from his duties as artistic director of Lancaster, PA’s Fulton Theatre to work his spec…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Review: Red Handed Otter/A Red Orchid Theatre by Aaron Hunt

In our world of bullet points and sound bytes, the second act of an entertainment seems presented with the challenge of proving its worth. A bristling Act I is often sadly followed by a defl…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:15AM
Monday, April 13, 2015

Review: Carousel/Lyric Opera of Chicago by Aaron Hunt

Wonderful things can come of Lyric’s decision to present musical theater. New audiences may be caught up in the ambiance, and elect to attend an opera. Lyric’s opera audiences could see …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Review: The Venetian Twins/Piccolo Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED While Carlo Goldoni’s 1747 play hangs on the familiar device of mayhem following in the wake of mistaken identical twins and the supporting stock characters of its time, Evanst…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:30AM
Friday, April 10, 2015

Encore, Encore: Porchlight Revisits the Forgotten Musical by Aaron Hunt

By Aaron Hunt Every year, New York City Center hosts the celebrated “Encores!” series, imagined as a way to rediscover and celebrate the Broadway musicals that, for whatever reason, …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:38AM
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Review: Travesties/Remy Bumppo Theatre Company by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED There is more than one lens through which to experience Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties:” One can know everything there is to know about James Joyce, Lenin, Dadaist Tristan Tzar…

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:30AM
Friday, March 27, 2015

Review: The Diary of Anne Frank/Writers Theatre by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED The story of Anne Frank, a budding young Jewish woman entrapped by design, hidden in an Amsterdam attic where she bravely, almost joyously awaited what she felt certain would be …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Review: End Days/Windy City Playhouse by Aaron Hunt

RECOMMENDED Deborah Zoe Laufer’s existential comedy “End Days” sounds like a tongue-in-cheek choice for the Windy City Playhouse’s launch of its inaugural season. If their opening …

SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:38PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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