Done through the song, “I’ll Do Anything,” among the most endearing in Lionel Bart’s stupendous songbook, these two young triple threats move the story into its action-packed, conflicted middle, guided by the shows leading lady. It’s pivotal for a top-quality production of Oliver! to do this right, and it’s never been done more right than on this Lincolnshire stage.
Archives for November 2019
Tony-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon brings ‘The Nutcracker’ back to Chicago Joffrey this holiday season
CHICAGO – The Joffrey Ballet’s critically-acclaimed reimagined classic, The Nutcracker, by Tony Award®-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, returns to open the holiday season at the historic Auditorium Theatre, in downtown Chicago at 50 East Ida B. Wells Drive, in 29 performances only, November 30-December 29, 2019. This season’s production marks the last time The Nutcracker will
Moving Bench’s ‘Ballad of Lydia Pinkham’s Magical, Miracle Sure-Cure for All Female Weaknesses’ is all that it should be
Overall this production is what Chicago theatre is all about. A group of talented performers in a small space giving 110% to entertain an audience. They leave them laughing and thinking.
Raven’s fatally fantastic ‘Hoodoo Love’ is Chicago theatre at its finest
Wardell Julius Clark directs a sincere and spellbinding show that ingeniously illuminates the textures of the text. The riveting and real acting is gripping even at the surface level. But when Clark dives into the metaphors and bounces the characters off one another it becomes clear that each is a foil to each of the others as they gamble with the burgeoning music industry or with even more infernal forces.
Meghan Murphy brings Big Red & The Boys to Venus Cabaret for three performances, Dec. 7-9
VENUS CABARET THEATER proudly presents Meghan Murphy in Big Red & The Boys on Dec 18th, 2018 at 9:30pm. A non-traditional evening of songs, stories and spirits with Songstress Powerhouse Meghan “Big Red Murphy and her holiday boys, Patrick Andrews, John Francisco, TJ Chernick and Nick Davio on guitar, keys, drums, cello and percussion. This ain’t your
