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While the visual metaphors, the flying, and the movements were stunning, I quickly became lost as the story melted into too many unclear segments.

The Addams Family is a flat out hit show that finds a fresh way to re-introduce us to the bizarre world of our lovable finger-clicking Addams clan. Based on Charles Addams series of cartoons that ran in the New Yorker from 1938-88 and the hit TV series, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice have written a gag-filled hilarious book that aptly depicts their family values through a macabre lens.

Sara Tode is asked to play a variety of different women from various backgrounds, but she blows it by over acting the stereotypes of each woman and missed completely on the different accents.

Aunt Dan is a dark cautionary tale, a black comedy and a mordant tale about the chilling subversive nature of influence. This is a play that demands sharp listening skills as it contains several long monologues about geopolitics, the nature of societal survival, and the roots of the urge to kill to preserve order in society.

When the eight hard working kids finished Kyle Jarrow’s satire of both Scientology and religious pageants, I was quite appreciative of their work ethic as they flawlessly, at their skill level, ran through their songs and routines and dialogue.

Drury Lane’s production of A Christmas Carol is aimed more towards children than the other equity productions in the Chicagoland area, but it is still dramatically charming for audience members of all a

they got the dance part right–there are 4 or 5 high energy dance numbers including a manic tap number in act two danced to a techno-jazz orchestra. Unfortunately, much of the show is taken up with three unfunny and rather pathetic clowns that had a most tedious and ill conceived (boring) tired vaudeville act that had less than half the audience laughing.