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Theater Review
Theater Review: Nothing Without a Company’s ‘Pakalolo Sweet’ Takes on Mental Health
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 28, 2019 - 9:06am- Aloha Center Chicago
- Anna Ii-Epstein
- Bobby Wilhelmson
- Dean Santiago
- Hannah Ii-Epstein
- Hawaii
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- Jae K. Renfrow
- Lanialoha Lee
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- Pakalolo Sweet
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CHICAGO – Playwright Hannah Ii-Epstein is a Hawaiian native who is bringing her unique point of view regarding that U.S.“State of Mind” to the Chicago stage. The theater group Nothing Without a Company presents her latest, “Pakalolo Sweet.” through October 5th, 2019, at the Berger Mansion in the Edgewater neighborhood. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Kokandy Productions ‘Head Over Heels’ Sparkles with Joy, Passion and Life
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 16, 2019 - 1:45pmCHICAGO – Kokandy Productions is one of the best in Chicago doing musicals, and scores again with “Head Over Heels,” through August 25th, 2019, at Theater Wit. For more details and tickets, click here.
Theater Review: Americana of ‘The Music Man’ is Revived at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 9, 2019 - 11:21amCHICAGO – Professor Harold Hill has come back to River City, and that means trouble right here. Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” is now in major revival at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
Theater Review: Brown Paper Box Co. ‘Grace, Or the Art of Climbing’ thru July 7, 2019
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 17, 2019 - 12:39pmCHICAGO – What is life but a constant climb? The Brown Paper Box Co., one of the most vital storefront theater groups in Chicago, asks that question and more in the significant “Grace, Or the Art of Climbing.” Using a woman’s journey through some difficult situations, the parallels of “the climb” become a artfully performed story that is all inspiration and uplift. The play runs through July 7th, 2019, at Stage 773 in the Belmont Avenue Theater District in Chicago. For more information and tickets, click here.
Theater Review: ‘Freeman’ at Chicago’s Physical Theater Festival is Must See Expressive Truth
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 7, 2019 - 10:31amCHICAGO – We are a sick society, consumed with fear. But the greatest art comes out of that fear, and the Strictly Arts Company – visiting from Britain – assesses the sum of our phobias regarding race relations in “Freeman,” now at the Physical Theater Festival in Chicago. There are two more performances of this must-see expression, Friday, June 7th, and Saturday, June 8th, 2019, at Stage 773 in Chicago’s Belmont theater district. Click here for more details and tickets.
Theater Review: Classic ‘West Side Story’ at Chicago's Lyric Opera
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 14, 2019 - 7:56pmCHICAGO – “When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way … “ And there is no more appropriate way to lyrically pay tribute to a classic staging of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical, “West Side Story.” There is a new staging currently at Lyric Opera of Chicago, which runs through June 2nd, 2019. Click here for more details and tickets.
Theater Review: ‘It’s NOT ALL About You John Michael’ in Chicago
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 27, 2019 - 12:06pmCHICAGO – John Michael epitomizes the art of the monologue. The Chicago transplant, by way of Dallas, is moving on (he says temporarily) from the city that inspired his last show, “Meatball Seance,” after notorious and successful runs of his other one-man shows, “John Michael and the Order of the Penix” and “Dementia Me.” His farewell performance is his latest, another laugh riot, “It’s NOT ALL About You John Michael,” and will take place at Mary’s Attic in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood on March 1st, 2019. Click here for details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Kicky ‘The Soccer Player in the Closet’ from Nothing Without a Company
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 25, 2019 - 6:46pm- Alex Roggow
- Amelia Bethel
- Christopher Sylvie. Anna Rose Ii-Epstein
- eSoccer
- Hannah Ii-Epstein
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- Julian Serna
- Loft
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- Plant Store
- Rolando Serrano
- Ryan Oliveira
- The Soccer Player in the Closet
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- Viviana Uribe
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CHICAGO – Connecting to the theater collective Nothing Without a Company means a couple of things. One, you may visit parts of Chicago you’ve never seen before – in this case a plant store in an industrial area south of Humboldt Park – and two, you will see some daring and outside-the-box stagings. “The Soccer Player in the Closet” is their latest production – a World Premiere – and it provides what the title implies and beyond. The play runs through March 17th, 2019. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Brown Paper Box Co’s Magnificent, Must-See ‘Little Women: The Musical’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 18, 2019 - 12:56pm- Alan Knee
- Andi Saravsky
- Brown Paper Box Co.
- Civil War
- Denise Tamburrino
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- Jason Howland
- Jenny Rudnick
- Jo March
- Kim Green
- Little Women: The Musical
- Louisa May Alcott
- M. William Panek
- Mindi Dickstein
- Patrick McDonald
- Sarah Ford
- Stephanie Rohr
- Tessa Dettman
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CHICAGO – The story of “Little Women,” by Louisa May Alcott, has been an American institution since its publication in 1869. The story of four girls-to-little-women during the American Civil War, with their indomitable mother holding down the household while their father is away in the war, was a perfect candidate to become a Broadway musical. The Brown Paper Box Co. (BPBCo) is currently presenting a brilliant adaptation of that musical for the storefront stage, and its emotion, music craft and energy is nothing sort of a triumph… this small theater company that could does it again. The show has various evening/matinee performances at the The Strawdog Theatre in Chicago through February 9th, 2018. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
Theater Review: Art’s Healing Power from Brown Paper Box Company’s ‘Everybody’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on July 21, 2018 - 5:43pm- Alex Madda
- Alys Dickerson
- BPBCo
- Branden Jacob-Jenkins
- Brown Paper Box Co.
- Chelsea Dávid
- Death
- Donovan Session
- Everybody
- Family
- Francesca Sobrer
- Friends
- God
- Hal Cosentino
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- Kenny the Bearded
- Life
- Nora Fox
- Patrick McDonald
- Somebody
- Stuff
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CHICAGO – When is the last time a stage play, based in an intimate setting, made you think about your life, death, and the destiny inherent in both? “Everybody,” staged by Brown Paper Box Co. (BPBCo), is such a play, and the energetic aura and sense of surprise that the show contains is soul soothing wonder. The show has various evening/matinee performances at the Pride Arts Center in Chicago run through August 12, 2018. Click here for more details, including ticket information.
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