By Barry Reszel Lincolnshire’s Marriott Theatre, a decades-long Equity regional leader, opened its post-COVID (we hope) life with a consummately professional, vaccination- and mask-required production of The World Goes ‘Round. The five-performer, intermission-less ninety-minute musical revue features the works of John Kander and Fred Ebb, among the most acclaimed Broadway musical songwriting teams ever. Director
This ‘Kinky Boots’ is so Paramount, truly everybody can say, ‘Yeah!”
By Barry Reszel It’s not a surprise when Aurora’s Paramount Theatre sets the musical theatre bar with its splendid production value. And to be sure, its first-since-pandemic-shutdown extravaganza that is Kinky Boots delivers delight to audiences in every possible way. But for just a couple upfront paragraphs here, the joyous onstage and backstage work itself
Suddenly Metropolis is standing before us, open for in-person ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
By Barry Reszel On about the twenty-third day of the month of February early in the year just before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places. Cue the doo-woppers.
