A Song for Coretta
Cleage’s drama elucidates the faces that the civil rights movement produced with the emphasis on five women’s perspectives. Mrs. King’s legacy is vividly presented by each of the disparate African-American women.
Reviews
A Trubute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow)
Kudos to Jackie Taylor and Rueben Echoles for casting such a fine collection of crooners! We enjoy the golden voices of the ‘old crooners’–Trinity P. Muedock, Donald Barnes and Magellen Watts and their children–Donald Manuel, Michael T. Bartlett and Rashawn Thompson.
The Ride Down Mount Morgan
In Ride, Miller presents one of his most complex characters–Lyman Felt (Robert Dennison)–a self-made insurance millionaire. Lyman is brilliant, charming and quite charismatic. He is also a devious, amoral, selfish, delusional liar who convinces himself that his deceptions are truthful
The Best Medicine
What this children’s production — mixing fairy tale, slapstick comedy and musical — projects in creativity is undercut by its lack of focus.
Fiddler On The Roof
Topol’s Chicago opening resulted in a resounding standing ovation from the packed house. It isn’t only Topol’s voice – which is as strong and mesmerizing as ever — or his acting ability — which is finely honed – it is all the little touches that make up a great role – the innuendos inherent in a raised eyebrow, a shrugged shoulder, a sly grin.
5th of July
5th of July moves along breezily with biting humor in the early moments yet it builds dramatic tension as each person come to grips with facing the present and putting the past to rest. Wilson populates his plays with full rounded characters with whom we care about.
Mud People
At the center of Keith Huff’s Mud People, now in its Midwest premiere at Mary Arrchie Theatre’s Angel Island space, is a stranger (Dereck Garner) – an angel who has fallen from the sky and who has the power to grant wishes without saying a word.
A Minster’s Wife
Michael Halberstam has conceived and directed a marvelous new operetta based on Shaw’s 1894, Candida. In a collaboration with Austin Pendleton (adapter), Jan Tranen (lyrics) and Josh Schmidt (music), A Minster’s Wife, now in a world premiere at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe is stunning work of art
Third
Third tells the story of Laurie Jameson (Robin Lewis-Bedz), a middle aged college professor whose well-ordered life as a wife, mother and daughter is thrown into disarray when she accuses a student of plagiarism
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music contains a lush, romantic waltz-time score by Sondheim. Director Rudy Hogenmiller has cast superb voices to sing Sondheim’s romantic lyrics. A Little Night Music is a work of theatrical art that appeals to operetta lovers and pure romantics.