Tom Williams

The Sound of Music is so sweet, so pure that it can’t help but please. This is solid family entertainment. This National Tour is charming and well executed; it is a star-making role for Kerstin Anderson, still a college student. She anchors a wonderful production. Hurry, you only have through Sunday, June 12.

Nick Sandy’s in this 2016 performance seemed more confident as Higgins as he was equally terrific to his 2009 take on Higgins.

This production of My Fair Lady looks gorgeous, sounds wonderful and sings beautifully while still having Shaw’s biting social attacks on British society in 1907. Take your family and friends to enjoy one of the greatest musicals of all-time here in a most enjoyable production!

So Out of The Blue is a wake-up call and a warning that homophobia still exists and is thriving in Russia and other parts of the world as well as rural America.

Will Burdin and Adam Zaininger lead a fine cast that put a face on boys struggling just to be accepted for themselves. I will never understand how gay folks are a threat to society and plays like Out of the Blue demonstrate that hate still is in the hearts of too many. This is an important play that needs to be seen by all, including teens.

Lovers of British comedy, lovers of classic commedia dell’ arte, and patrons of fearless uninhibited acting will be impressed by the stage craft in this show. Laughs reign here. You’ll be hard pressed to find a funnier comedy that One Man, Two Guvnors. This show begs for more commedial dell’ arte physical comedy productions to be mounted in Chicago. Get to Court Theatre to see for yourself what smart comedy is all about. this is one of the finest shows of the year!

We admire their spirit and determination; we feel their pain and we share Lucy Parsons’ passion and grief. Once this marvelous musical is finished, we realize that we have witnessed fine art piece – a rarity for a musical. Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook is one of the finest new musicals mounted on a Chicago stage in years! This show is a polished, finished product that begs for a long Chicago run before it moves across the nation.