Chicago Theatre Reviews

Red Tape Theatre presents Les Enfants Terribles Prom Night July 19-August 14, 2010. Photo by Rom Hartmon.

Les Enfants Terribles Prom Night

The fairy tale classic Pinocchio gets a new spin in Marc Robin’s imaginative, musical version running at Marriott Theatre For Young Audiences, July 15-August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Peter Coombs and Marriott Theatre.

Pinocchio

Broadway in Chicago launches the National Tour of Shrek the Musical beginning July 13, 2010 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Shrek the Musical

Eclipse Theatre Company presents Arthur Miller's After the Fall July 8-August 22, 2010 at the Greenhouse Theatre Center. Photos by Scott Cooper.

After the Fall

Idle Muse Theatre Company presents Sherlock Holmes The Final Adventure through August 22, 2010 at the Side Project Theatre

Sherlock Holmes The Final Adventure

Victory Gardens presents the World Premiere of Ensemble Playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s A Guide For The Perplexed featuring Kevin Anderson and Francis Guinan July 9–August 15, 2010. Photo by Liz Lauren.

A Guide for the Perplexed

Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare July 19-August 21, 2010 in Austin Gardens. Photo by Michael E. Rothman.

Love's Labour's Lost

Shoot Faster, Dear Brother, I'm Dying!, a Civil War comedy written and performed by Joe Anderson and Demian Krentz, plays July 8–31, 2010 at The Apollo Theater Studio.

Shoot Faster, Dear Brother, I'm Dying!

Try to Remember, a DVD documentary of the world's longest-running musical The Fantasticks

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks on DVD

The Second City presents Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies in an open run. Photo by John McCloskey.

Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies

Steppenwolf Theatre presents A Parallelogram, a new play by Bruce Norris July 1-August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Michael Brosilow.

A Parallelogram

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble presents Terrence McNally’s delightful romantic comedy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, July 9-25, 2010 at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage.

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Highland Park Players present The Musical of Musicals, The Musical! July 9-24, 2010

The Musical of Musicals

The New Colony presents That Sordid Little Story through August 7, 2010 at the Viaduct Theatre

That Sordid Little Story

Bailiwick Chicago presents Elton John & Tim Rice's musical Aida July 9-August 1, 2010 at American Theater Company. Photography by Foster Garvin, Jr.

Aida

First Folio Theatre presents William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night July 7-August 8, 2010.

Twelfth Night

Blair Thomas and Company present Hard Headed Heart through August 8, 2010 at Victory Gardens’ Richard Christiansen Studio Theatre. Photo by Saverio Truglia

Hard Headed Heart

Chicago Shakespeare Theater premieres The Emperor's New Clothes, a New Family Musical June 30-August 29, 2010. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Marriott Theatre presents the musical Once on this Island through August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Peter Coombs and Marriott Theatre.

Once on this Island

Hubris Productions presents Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling at Greenhouse Theater Center through July 31, 2010. Photo by Jason Dabrowski.

Steel Magnolias

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Lookingglass Alice through August 29, 2010

Lookingglass Alice

The Annoyance Theatre, Chicago's home for absurd and outrageous comedy, presents the premiere of 40 Whacks, a darkly humorous musical based on the notorious 1892 Borden murder case, June 18-August 6, 2010.

40 Whacks

Goodman Theatre presents The Sins of Sor Juana June 19-July 25, 2010. Photo by Liz Lauren.

The Sins of Sor Juana

Theo Ubique presents Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen at No Exit Cafe June 18-August 15, 2010

Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen

The Journeymen present Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare's R & J June 26-August 21, 2010. Performances take place in The Coach House Theater, located at the Berger Park District and Cultural Center, 6205 North Sheridan Road in Chicago.

Shakespeare's R&J

Bailiwick Chicago presents Fucking Men by Tony-winning writer Joe DiPietro through August 8, 2010 at Stage 773 (aka Theatre Building Chicago). Photo by Jeremy Lawson Photography.

Fucking Men

Black Ensemble Theater presents Nothing But the Blues through August 29, 2010. Photo by Danny Nicholas.

Nothing But the Blues

Mary-Arrchie Theatre presents Cherrywood through August 8, 2010 at Angel Island

Cherrywood

New Lincoln Theatre Productions presents Sex Marks the Spot June 11-July 25, 2010 at Theatre Building Chicago. Photos by Don Vanasek.

Sex Marks the Spot

The Gift Theatre presents the World Premiere of Suicide Incorporated June 10-September 12, 2010

Suicide, Incorporated

The Artistic Home presents the World Premiere of The Tallest Man through August 22, 2010

The Tallest Man

Broadway The American Musical, the companion book to the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary, is published by Applause Books

Broadway The American Musical Book

The musical Nine is now available on DVD

Nine on DVD

The Strange Tree Group presents Shakespeare's King Phycus June 16-July 31, 2010 at The Building Stage

Shakespeare's King Phycus

Annie plays June 16-19 and July 21-25 at Rock Valley College's Starlight Theatre in Rockford

Annie

Drury Lane Oakbrook presents the musical Sugar through August 1, 2010. Photo credit: Brett Beiner.

Sugar

Navy Pier announces the return of Cirque Shanghai to Chicago this summer for a fifth straight season with a new world premiere production, Cirque Shanghai: Cloud Nine, which will play Navy Pier’s Pepsi Skyline Stage May 28-Sept. 6, 2010.

Cirque Shanghai Cloud Nine

Frank Langella stars in the 2008 film version of Frost/Nixon, now available on DVD.

Frost/Nixon on DVD

The Best Drama from Stage to Screen

Raven Theatre presents Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple through August 8, 2010. Photos by Dean LaPrairie.

The Odd Couple

Writers' Theatre presents A Streetcar Named Desire through August 15, 2010. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

A Streetcar Named Desire

The American Stage

The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life plays an open run at Second City e.t.c.

The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life

Frank Wildhorn's new musical Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure is now on CD. Photo by Michal Daniel.

Wonderland on CD

Broadway In Chicago launches the Chicago company of the Tony Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical playing through January 15, 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. Photo credit: Joan Marcus.

Billy Elliot The Musical

Mister Roberts starring Robert Hays, Kevin Bacon and Charles Durning

Mister Roberts and Bus Stop on Video

Barrel of Monkeys, the Chicago-based arts education theater ensemble, brings their popular weekly showcase That's Weird, Grandma to The Neo-Futurarium in an open run.

That's Weird, Grandma

The long running hit musical Million Dollar Quartet continues its run through January 2, 2011 at the Apollo Theatre. Photos by Paul Natkin.

Million Dollar Quartet

Theatre World and Screen World books are published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Theatre World and Screen World

Forbidden Broadway Behind the Mylar Curtain is a new book published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain

Charlotte d'Amboise in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, the subject of the video Every Little Step. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

Broadway Musicals on DVD

Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, a book by Carol de Giere published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Defying Gravity