CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
On-Air Film Review: All the World’s a Stage in ‘Theater Camp’
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on July 13th, reviewing “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film of the Tom Cruise-led action series based on the 1960s TV show. In theaters since July 12th.!—break—>
Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
Platt is Amos Klobuchar, a camp counselor who is part of a dynamic duo with fellow counselor Rebecca-Diane (Molly Gordon, also co-writer and co-director), trying to keep their go-on-with-the-show sanity together when clueless tech-bro Troy (Jimmy Tatro) takes over the camp operations after his mother Joan (Amy Sedaris) goes into a coma. Amos and Rebecca-Diane write an original musical each summer, and this one has to have a vibe to save the camp from a takeover from a rich kids camp next door. Can this rag-tag bunch of theater kids save the day?
Theater Camp
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