CHICAGO – There is no better time to take in a stage play that is based in U.S. history, depicting the battle between fact and religion. The old theater chestnut – first mounted in 1955 – is “Inherit the Wind,” now at the Goodman Theatre, completing it’s short run through October 20th. For tickets and more information, click INHERIT.
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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