Index - Chicago theater reviews

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Productions

A

Abigail's Party                                             Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Addams Family, The                                     After The Fall

After The Revolution                                  Ah, Wilderness!

Aida                                                         Ain't Misbehavin'

Aladdin                                                       Alegia

All in Love is Fair                                        All My Sons

All Shook Up                                                All's Well That Ends Well

Altar Boyz                                                  Always...Patsy Cline

Amadeus                                                      America: All Better

American Buffalo                                           American Dream Songbook

American Idiot                                       Ameriville

Amish Project, The                                       Analytical Engine, The

Angel's In America                                           Animal Crackers

Arabian Nights                                                 Around the World in 80 Days (2008)

Around the World in 80 Days (2011)                    Art

Assisted Living                                                  As You Like It (2008)

As You Like It (2011)                                         At Home at the Zoo

Augusta                                                           Avenue Q(2008)

Avenue Q (2010)                                               Awake and Sing!

Ah, Wilderness!

B

Baker's Wife, The                                            Ballad of Emmett Till

Banana Shpeel                                                Becky Shaw

Behanding in Spokane, A                                  Better Late

Big Meal, The                                                 Billy Connolly Live!

Billy Elliot                                                       Black Watch

Blackbird                                                      Blithe Spirit

Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead

Body Awareness                                              Boleros for the Disenchanted

Boneyard Prayer                                             boom

Bowery Boys    Boys from Syracuse

Boys Room, The                                               Broadway Bound

Brigadoon                                                       Bristol Renaissance Faire (2009)

Bristol Renaissance Faire (2011)                         Bronte

Brother Can You Spare Some Change?                Brother/Sister Plays

Brothers Karamazov                                          Bronx Tale, A

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story                            Bus Stop

Busman's Honeymoon                                        Butcher of Baraboo, The

C

Camino Real Campaign Supernova or How many Democrats Does it Take to Lose an Election?
Can Can Cascabel

Candide(2008) Candide(2010)

Caroline, Or Change Carousel

Carrie Fisher Wishful Drinking Caretaker, The

Carter’s Way Cascabel

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Cavalia (G)

Celebrity Row C'est La Vie

Changes of Heart Chesapeak

Chess Chicago (2009)

Chicago (2011) Chinglish

Chorus Line,A (2009) Chorus Line, A (2010)

Christmas Carol, A (2010) (G) Christmas Carol(2008) (G)

Christmas Carol (2011 G) Circle Mirror Transformation

Cirque Dreams Illumination Cirque Du Soliel (2008)(G)

Cirque Du Soleil - Ova (G)(2011) Cirque Eloize

Cirque Shanghai (2008) (G) Cirque Shanghai (2009)(G)

Cirque Shanghai (2010) Cirque Shanghai (2011) (G)

Civil War Christmas, A (G) Class Dismissed

Clybourne Park Collection, The

Comedy Of Errors,The (2008) Comedy of Errors, The (2009)

Comedy Of Errors, The (2010) Come Fly Away

Company Crazy for Yo u

Cripple of Inishmaan,The Critic, The

Crowd You're in with, The Curtains

Cyrano de Bergerac(2009)

D

Daddy Long Legs

Death of a Salesman

Detroit

Dirty Dancing

Distracted

Do The Hustle

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Drood

Drowsy Chaperone, The (2010)

Dying City

Dead Man's Cell Phone

Desire Under the Elms

Detective's Wife, The

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Disgraced

Don't Dress for Dinner

Doyle and Debbie Show, The

Dream Girls

Drowsy Chaperone(2008)

Dublin Carol

E

Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer

Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety Elizabeth Rex

Escanaba in Love Ethan Frome

Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin, An

F

Fake Farewell Umbrella

Farnsworth Invention, The Feast, The

Fedra,Queen of Haiti                                         Fela

Feydeau-si-deau                                                Fiddler on the Roof(G)

Fifty Words                                                         First Breeze of Summer, The

Follies                                                                 For the Boys

Forbidden Broadway Christmas, A                         42nd Street

Four of Us, The                                                   Four Places

Fragments                                                          Freud's Last Session

Front Page, The                                                  Frost/Nixon

F***king A                                                         Fuerza Bruta

Full Monty,The                                                    Funk it up About Nothin'(2008)

Funk It up About Nothin'(2011)                               Funny Girl

G

Gas For Less Gee’s Bend

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Ghostwritten

Gigi Girl in the Yellow Dress, The

Glass Managerie, The Goat, The

God of Carnage Good Boys and True

Goodbye Girl, The Good Negro, The

Gospel According to James, The Graceland

Grease                                                     Great Falls

Grey Gardens                                            Guide For the Perplexed, A

Gutenberg! The Musical!                             Guys and Dolls (2011-Marriott)

Guys and Dolls (2011-Theater at the Center) Gypsy

H

Hair Hairspray(2009)

Hairspray (2012) Hamlet

Hairy Ape Hay Fever

Heartbreak House Heat Wave

Hedda Gabler Henry IV: The Making of a King

Heroes Hesperia

Hesphaestus (G-2008) Hesphaestus (G-2010)

High Holidays History Boys, The

Homecoming,The Hot l Baltimore

Hot Mikado House With No Walls

Hughie(Canada-08) Hughie (Goodman-10)

Hunchback Hunger

I

Icarus Iceman Cometh, The

I Do! I Do! Iliad, An (2011)

Iliad,the (2010) Illusion, The

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Importance of Being Earnest, The(2009-Canada) Importance of Being Earnest, The (2010- Remy Bumppo)

In a Dark House In The Heights

In A Forest, Dark and Deep In The Next Room

Invisible Man Iolanthe

Irving Berlin's White Christmas (G)(2010) Irving Berlin's White Christmas (G 2011)

Ishara Puppet Theatre Island, The

It's A Wonderful Life(G)(2008) It's A Wonderful Life (G)(2010-St. Charles)

It's A Wonderful Life (G)(ABT) It's a Wonderful Life (2011 - G-ATC )

J

Jackie Wilson Story, The Jacob and Jack

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jeff Awards Jersey Boys(2009)

Jersey Boys(2012)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2009)(G)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2011)(G)

Jubilee! Julius Caesar

K

Kafka on the Shore Kid from Brooklyn:The Danny Kaye Musical

Kid Sister Killer Joe

K of D,The, An Urban Legend Kiss Me Kate

Kooza Krapp's Last Tape (Canada)

Krapp's Last Tape(2010)

L

Lady with all the Answers, The Lady's Not For Burning,The

Last Act of Lilka Kadison, The Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Leaving Iowa Legally Blonde(Broadway in Chgo 2009)

Legally Blonde (Marriott 2012) Les Miserables

Liaisons Dangereuses, Les Lieutenant of Inishmore

Life, A Light in the Piazza

Lion in Winter, The Lion King, The (G)

Little Dog Laughed, The Little Foxes, The

Little Night Music, A Little Women

Living Green Long Red Road, The

Lookinglass Alice (G) Lost Boys of Sudan, The

Louis Slotin Sonata Love Person

Lover,The Love's Labour's Lost

M

Macbeth Madagascar

Madness of George III.The Maestro

Magnolia                                                      Maids, The

Mamma Mia!(Sept. 2008)                                 Mamma Mia!(2010)

Man Who Came to Dinner, The                        Mariette in Ecstasy

Mark of Zorro. The                                        Marriage of Figaro,The

Married Alive                                                 Marvelous Wonderlettes

Mary                                                      Mary Poppins (G)(2009)

Mary Poppins (G) (2011)                               Master Harold'... and the Boy s

March, The    Match

Mauriti use                                                    Megacosm

Meet John Doe                                             Memory of Two Mondays, A

Memphis                                                          Merchant of Venice, The

Mercy Seat,The                                               Metal Children

Michael Jackson, The Immortal World Tour          Middletown

Midsummer's Night Dream, A                              Million Dollar Quartet

Million Dollar Quartet (Transferred)                    A Minister's Wife

Miss Saigon                                                       Mistakes Were Made

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting                                  Motherhood, The Musical

Moonstone, The                                             Mourning Becomes Electra

Movin' Out                                                       Murder for Two

Music Man, The(G)(2008-Canada)                       Music Man, The(G) (2010)

Music Man(G) (2010)                                       My Brother's Keeper

My Fair Lady (G) (08)                                        My Fair Lady(G) (09 )

My Kind of Town                                               Mystery of Irma Vep, The

N

Nelson Algren, For Keeps and a Single Day Neverwhere

New Electric Ballroom, The Next to Normal

Night and Day Nine

9 Parts of Desire 9 to 5

Nixon's Nixon Noises Off

No Country For Old White Men North Plan, The

Not Enough Air Number of People

Nutcracker, The (G)

O

Odd Couple, The Oh Coward!

Old Glory Old Settler, The

Old Times Oleanna

On an Average Day On The Verge

101 Dalmations (G) Odradek

Orlando Othello

Other Cinderella, The Our Town

Outgoing Tide, The Over The Tavern(G)

Overwhelming, The

P

Parallelogram Pen

Penelope People's Temple, The

Perfect Wedding, A Peter Pan (G)(Canada 2010)

Peter Pan (G) (2010-Lookingglass)

Peter Pan (G) (2011-Chgo. Tribune Freedom Center)

Piano Lesson, The Piano Teacher, The

Picnic Picture of Dorian Gray, The

Pirates of Penzance, The Pitmen Painters, The

Plaid Tidings Plaza Suite

Po Boy Tango Porgy and Bess

Price, The Pride and Prejudice

Private Lives Pump Boys and Dinettes

Putting it Together

R

Radio City Christmas Spectacular Radio Macbeth

Ragtime Rain(2009)

Rain (2011) Real Inspector Hound, The

Real Thing, The Reasons to Be Pretty

Red Red Herring

Red Noses Relatively Close

Rent(2009) Rent(2012)

Return To Haifa Richard III

Riverdance Rock N Roll

Rock of Ages Rod Blagojevich Superstar!

Romeo and Juliet Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead

Rush Limbaugh: The Musical Russian on the Side

S

Saint Joan Screwtape Letters, The

Seafarer, The Seagull, The

Season's Greetings Sense and Sensibility

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(G) Sex, Love and the Second City

Sex With Strangers Shanghai Circus Extreme(G)(2011)

She Loves Me Shining City

Shout!(G) Shrek, The Musical(G)

Side by Side by Sondheim Sizwe Banzi is Dead

Sky's The Limit, The Sleeping Beauty (G)

Sleuth Snapshots

Snow Queen, The (G) Some Enchanted Evening

Sound of Music,The (G) South Side of Heaven

Souvenir Spamalot

Speed-The-Plow Spin

Spoiler alert: Everybody Dies Spring Awakening

Spring Green Festival Spunk

Standard Market

Starting Here, Starting Now State of the Union

Stomp(G) Stoop Stories

Strange Interlude Stratford Shakespeare Festival (2009)

Streetcar Named Desire, A Studs Terkle's Not Working

Sugar Suicide, Inc.

Superior Donuts Sweeney Todd(2008)

Sweeney Todd(2011) Sweet and Hot

T

Talking It Over Taming of the Flu

Taming of the Shrew,The(2009) Taming of the Shrew(2010)

Taming of the Shrew(2011- WS) Taste of Honey, A

Tempest, The (2009) Tempest, The (Canada-2010)

Ten Chimneys They're Playing Our Song

Third Thirty-nine Steps, The

This This is How It Goes

Thoroughly Modern Millie Three Tall Women

Three Sisters, The Thugs, The

Tigers Be Still Time Stands Still

{title of show} Titus Andronicus

To Master The Art Topdog/underdog

Traces (G ) Travels With My Aunt(2009-Canada)

Travels With My Aunt (2010-Writer's) Tree

Trinity River Plays, The Trip to Bountiful, The

True History of the Johnston Flood, A True West

Trust Turn of the Century

Turn of the Screw, The(2007) Turn of The Screw, The (2012)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee(2010)

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee(2009) Twist of Water

U

Uncle Vanya      U.N. Inspector

Unnecessary Farce                                    Up

Urine Town

V

Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pagaent (G)

V is for Variety Voysey Inheritance, The

W

Walworth Farce, The Watership Down

We Are Proud.... Weekend

Welcome to Arroyo's Well

West Side Story(2011) When She Danced

White Noise Who Do We Think We Are?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Wicked (G)

Wild Duck, The Willy Wonka(G)

Wings Winter Pageant Redux (G)

Winter's Tale, A Wiz, The (G)

X

Y

Year Zero
Young Frankenstein

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