Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Reviewed By: James Murray Recommended The play, which was the basis for Lerner & Lowe’s [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:48PMSunday, October 23, 2016
Highly Recommended Reviewed by: James Murray Donizetti’s masterpiece of passion & betrayal gets a magnificent [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:14AMThursday, April 21, 2016
RECOMMENDED REVIEWED BY: JAMES MURRAY Before the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice smash Broadway musical Evita many had either forgotten or knew nothing about the wife of Argentinian dictato…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:00PMFriday, April 8, 2016
Reviewed by: James Murray Not Recommended Over the many years I have been involved in the theatre I have had the misfortune to see world [...]
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:12PMThursday, December 31, 2015
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED REVIEWED BY: JAMES MURRAY Frank Loesser penned what is considered by many the perfect musical, running 1200 performances and garnering the Tony Award for Best Music…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:40PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Reviewed by: James Murray Highly Recommended I have lived in Chicago since 1992. In that time I have seen the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker on Christmas Eve matinee as a part of my holiday r…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:21AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Reviewed By: James Murray Highly Recommended It is hard to believe that Disney’s The Lion King celebrates its 18th year as the reigning king of Broadway, with tours all over the world. Now…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:56AMThursday, December 3, 2015
Reviewed By: James Murray Somewhat Recommended Noel Coward’s comedy of bad manners Fallen Angels is now enjoying a run at one of Chicago’…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:22AMThursday, November 26, 2015
REVIEWED BY: JAMES MURRAY NOT RECOMMENDED What happens when you take a rambling script, mediocre actors, Monty Python and you package them for Broadway? You get the Sherlock Holmes, n…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:37AMMonday, November 16, 2015
Reviewed by: James Murray Franz Lehar’s masterpiece, composed in 1905, swept the world with its intoxicating music and poignant love story about second chances. It is the first “musical�…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:50PMMonday, August 17, 2015
Highly Recommended Reviewed by: James Murray We all know that the weather in Chicago has been unpredictable, unseasonal and, at times, deadly. We have had storms that destroy. In Evanston at…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:56AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Highly Recommended Theatre In Chicago Review Round up Reviewed by: James Murray Adam Gwon’s musical Ordinary Days, now in an outstanding production at Boho Theatre in Rogers Park, is a r…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:39PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Reviewed by: James Murray Highly Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round Up Tennessee William’s seldom done Rose Tattoo is getting a top-notch and rare revival by Shattered Globe Thea…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:55PMSunday, January 25, 2015
Reviewed By: James Murray Premiering in 1957 Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet still packs a whollop, especially in the hands of a masterful d…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:25PMSunday, December 21, 2014
Reviewed By: James Murray Highly Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round Up Light Opera Works in Evanston, Chicago’s premiere musical theatre staging the operettas of bygone days, has…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:07PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Highly Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round Up Reviewed by: James Murray Donizetti’s Anna Bolena originally premiered on December 26th, 1830 at La Scala in Italy with who is consid…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:36PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Reviewed by: James Murray Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round-Up The Queen of mystery, Agatha Christie’s first play The Mousetrap premiered in London’s West End in 1952 and, muc…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:59AMThursday, November 20, 2014
Reviewed by: James Murray Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round-Up In 1926 George Gershwin read Porgy by DuBose Heyward, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, and immediately wrote …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:02PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: THEATRE IN CHICAGO REVIEW ROUND-UP REVIEWED BY: JAMES MURRAY Griffin Theatre Company launches its 2014-15 season with a new, intimate production of Titanic. The original …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:23AMSunday, November 9, 2014
REVIEWED BY: JAMES MURRAY Drury Lane’s current offering of Camelot is not the one that Lerner & Lowe wrote. Director/Choreographer Alan Souza, making his Drury Lane debut was selected …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:50PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round-Up Reviewed by: James Murray Rogers and Hammerstein’s classic and well-loved King & I , by Margaret Landon and the fictionalized diaries of…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:46PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Highly Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round Up Reviewed By: James Murray Bailiwick Chicago has launched its 2014-2015 season with the challenging and formidable The Wild Party by Mic…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:51PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Highly Recommended: Reviewed by: James Murray George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is best remembered for having been one of the most prolific Irish playwrights the world has known, penning over …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:51PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Recommended: Theatre In Chicago Review Round Up Reviewed By: James Murray Drury Lane’ s current offering, Ken Ludwig’s 2012 Mystery Writers of Edgar Allen Poe award winning murder my…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:02PMWednesday, August 27, 2014
On The Town, the musical by Leonard Bernstein, started out as the ballet on which he collaborated with then unknown choreographer Jerome Robbins, Fancy Free. The story traces the 24 hour a…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:25PMTuesday, August 12, 2014
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 08:24AMSunday, August 10, 2014
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:48PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 12:42PMSunday, August 3, 2014
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:36PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
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SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 11:16AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
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