42 stories by "Emma S. Rund"
CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION; RELEVANCE VS. TIMELESSNESS THE GOODMAN HAS THE PLAY OF THE MOMENT Dubbed "The Trial of the Century," the inspiration for Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inheri…
LET IDLE MUSE'S INDULGENCE SET YOU FREE Idle Muse Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest immerses its audience in a dark and stormy night full of magic and mischie…
A NEW MUSICAL THAT JUST MIGHT RIP YOUR HEART OUT Preston Max Allen's new musical Never Better at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre is an emotionally raw folk-punk musical. It sometimes struggles w…
THE GREATEST PRODUCTION YOU'LL EVER SEE OF A PERPLEXING MUSICAL If you ever want to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, Writers Theatre is the place to see it. I …
ENJOYABLE, BUT WHO IS THE AUDIENCE FOR THE AUDIENCE? The Audience at Drury Lane Theatre is a slightly stuffy drama best suited for audience members who are very interested in British poli…
TOO MUCH HEART; NOT ENOUGH BLOOD Directed by Braxton Crewell, the Factory Theater's production of Cody Lindley and Nate Hall's new rock musical Stabbed in the Heart has some hilarious moment…
RACHEL BLOOMS IN DEATH Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, gives a hilarious and vulnerable performance in her raunchy and irreverent one-woman musical comedy Death…
BACK TO THE FUTURE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Broadway tour of Back to the Future, a musical adaptation of the beloved film, has landed at Chicago's Cadillac Palace as part of…
A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AT THE THEATER First Floor Theater's Chicago premiere of In His Hands by Benjamin Benn, which opened last night, is breathtaking from start to finish. Benn's writin…
ALICE BY HEART: FULL-HEARTED PRODUCTION; HALF-HEARTED SCRIPT Alice by Heart follows a young girl, Alice (Caitlyn Cerza), during the London Blitz of World War II as she takes refuge in her be…
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each w…
BORED OF THE RINGS In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins famously states to his nephew and adoptive heir, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You st…
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND BAD " GET HIGH FROM A TALL GLASS OF LADY CHABLIS; TAKE A BOTTLE OF BOURBON TO ENDURE THE OTHERS The Goodman Theatre's premiere production of Midnight in th…
ZAC IS ON THE INSIDE TRACK Token Theatre's world premiere production of Zac Efron by David Rhee " co-written by Wai Yim and directed by Alan Muraoka " is not about Zac Efron at all, be…
LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD IS A BRIGHT STAR IN OUR VAST UNIVERSE Steppenwolf's world premiere production of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter lays bare the reality of two people who …
CLUE: A WALKING MYSTERY IS INDEED A WALKING MYSTERY MY ADVICE? JUST KEEP WALKING You could say that CLUE: A Walking Mystery lives up to its name, in that the intended audience for this exper…
A KITE THIS BIG DOESN'T ALWAYS TAKE OFF; WHEN IT DOES, THIS STAGE ADAPTATION IS WORTH SEEING Directed by Giles Croft, the touring production of The Kite Runner at CIBC Theatre is an intensel…
