Paramount Theatre's "Little Shop of Horrors" has it all"fantastic singing, fleshed out characters, hit songs and a hyper-detailed set. If you're in the mood for the macabre, this is the show…
For twelve years, Kokandy Productions has been presenting high-quality musicals designed for wide appeal and shallow pockets. Known for producing Chicago premieres of cult-status film proper…
"The Innocence of Seduction," the third in a comic book-themed trilogy written and directed by Max Pracht, begins just before the implementation of the Comics Code.
The television show "Dance Moms" has gained wide popularity for featuring overbearing mothers obsessed with their child's (re: their) dreams of grandeur and stardom, but none of these ladies…
"The Light" by Loy A. Webb is a seventy-minute one act play about a young Black couple who struggle with a revelation from the past that threatens to break up their budding relationship.
I agree with real-life director L. Walter Stearns' note in the program, that "This show has a little something to offend everyone." The goal is not to offend for the sake of offending, howev…
If you're in the mood for a raunchy rock concert but want to get to bed at a decent time, then check out "Rock of Ages."
Metropolis Performing Arts breathes new life into their production of "Xanadu," directed by Kevin Wiczer, with choreography by Kristine Burdi and musical direction by Kenny McMullen.
In an underwater seascape of jewel tone colors and sparkling glass coral reefs, the residents of Bikini Bottom go about their day as usual"a school of sardines flitter around in pink 1960's …
"The Buddy Holly Story" is a heart-warming story wrapped around a rock concert that slips smoothly from song to song and compels the audience to tap their feet, clap their hands and sing alo…
The story centers on the teen-to-young adult journey of a man called Youth, an aspiring musician who journeys from the U.S. to Europe in search of identity, stewarded by a fourth-wall breaki…
"Personality" is based on the life of famed singer, Lloyd Price, one of those names that you may not have heard of, but with whose music you are no doubt familiar.
The story of two first generation, Asian-American renegades on a spree of crime and passion through the backroads of the Midwest.
The narrative unfolds like viewing a picture up close and slowly stepping backwards to get the big picture. Through a series of short vignettes unfold the lives of townsfolk living in a Poli…
"Tango" addresses the social stigmatization toward gay people in the context of modern-day Singapore.
Court Theatre continues their series of plays by Sophocles about the last days of Oedipus reimagined as a Pentecostal church service. There is lots of singing, with each cast member displayi…
The Raven Theatre is transformed into the basement apartment of a three-flat in the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago, where a Black grandmother works tirelessly to protect her home and gra…
A show that portrays "real" Muslim characters who spend half the show in their undergarments, twisting and contorting in all manner of sexual positions, and the other half having deep conver…
What does an early twentieth-century Arctic explorer and a modern-day single mother/struggling musician have in common? Almost nothing! And yet they make for the most charming companions in …
The show centers around waspy, middle-class suburbanites, The Healy family, each of whom are suffering from a different existential crisis.
Adapted from the 1928 satire "The Suicide" by Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman, "Dying For It" tells the story of patriotic proletariats trying to find meaning in an egalitarian, near-secul…
"A Town Called Progress," a new comedy written by Trina Kakacek and directed by Anna C. Bahow, explores a hypothetical scenario in which communism, feminism and utopianism are given an hones…
Jim Mallon spent years at Harrigan's on Halsted drinking copious pints of Guinness while pursuing a dream, to have his life's story documented in some significant way. Mallon's dream is fina…
What do you get when you smash together old Flash Gordon serials with intergalactic alien orgies and hidden emotional trauma? While the premise is simple, the execution is luscious and extra…
The history of medical experimentation on Black Americans is historically one of the most diabolical acts committed. This history of inhuman treatment is explored in "How Blood Go."