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Lookingglass’ “Tin Soldier” Ideal Holiday Entertainment
By Peter Thomas Ricci Lookingglass Theatre’s production of the Hans Christian Andersen story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” has become a holiday tradition in Chicago, and for good reason –...
By Peter Thomas Ricci Porchlight Theatre is among the finest interpreters of musical theater in all of Chicagoland, and those traits are in abundance in the company’s staging of the […]
By Peter Thomas Ricci Teatro Vista has a long history of producing nuanced, historically relevant material for the Chicago stage, and their latest production – “Hope: Part II of a Mexican...
by Peter Thomas Ricci Of all the things I love about Chicago’s theater scene, there is perhaps none that I adore more than this: that I am just as likely […]
By Peter Thomas Ricci One of the marque pleasures of theater-going is experiencing new talent for the first time. As enjoyable as it is seeing veteran actors tackle new roles […]
By Peter Thomas Ricci “Ms. Blakk for President,” the new Steppenwolf play from Tina Landau and the Oscar-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, is thrilling before it even properly begins:...