Saturday, November 19, 2011
STILL WAITING TO SEE IF THIS DOUGH WILL EVER RISE The Baker’s Wife never made it to Broadway. The musical folded in Washington. D.C. in 1976 before reaching New York City but has since gai…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:53PMTAKING CARE TO CREATE EXCELLENT THEATER The plot of Harold Pinters’ The Caretaker is uncomplicated on the surface and densely complex in its subtexts; it is a melding of realism and theatr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:57PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
PROFILES OF A DREARY EXISTENCE The Profiles Theatre has carved out an essential niche for itself on the local Chicagoland theater scene with sexy, violent, and edgy modern dramas. Recently, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:21PMBERNSTEIN IN SOME OF HIS GLORY Older spectators will remember Leonard Bernstein not just as a conductor, composer, and pianist, but as one of the most vivid personalities and astonishingly e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50PMThursday, November 10, 2011
A DREAMBOAT IN DREAMCOAT In just two productions, the Paramount Theatre has elevated itself to the top of the class in Chicagoland musical theater, in company with Drury Lane in Oakbrook Ter…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:20AMThursday, November 3, 2011
PROMISING PREMISE PRODUCES PREPOSTEROUS PRODUCT Katha and Ryu are a modern married couple fed up with their harried lives: Ryu hates his 60-hour workweeks as a doctor and Katha is discontent…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27PMMonday, October 31, 2011
HAND OVER GIST Martin McDonagh, the English dramatist known for his quirky and violent plays set in rural Ireland, sets A Behanding in Spokane in the United States, but the setting hasn’t …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PMSaturday, October 29, 2011
A RESONANT AND RESOUNDING SOUND OF MUSIC Although the Drury Lane Theatre extended the run of its revival of THE SOUND OF MUSIC even before the show opened, the laudable theater company might…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:22PMI’M DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS THAT WORKS It is possible that Irving Berlin’s White Christmas might succeed with audiences. Possible, that is, if they are willing to tolerate a lame, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
COUNTRY MUSIC PARODY BETTER THAN COUNTRY MUSIC ITSELF Country music can be whiney, right wing, corny, and macho. In the case of The Doyle and Debbie Show, it is also hilarious. I am no lover…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:34PMCHARACTER PORTRAYALS BRING BUS STOP TO LIFE William Inge was a hot American playwright during the 1950’s, but in the turbulent 1960’s and beyond, his realistic studies of small town Midw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:27PMSunday, October 2, 2011
REVUE REVIEW Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire are not household names among the teams of composers who have contributed to the American musical stage. Although their collaboration goes b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AM 
