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Board game turned cult comedy “Clue” makes hysterical jump to Mercury Theater stage

Murder mysteries never go out of season, but there’s no better moment to launch the Mercury Theater’s stage adaptation of the vintage board game turned cult comedy film [More…]

From “Lady Marmalade” to Lady Gaga, “Moulin Rouge!” resurrects turn of 20th century glamour

If the gargantuan, double Oscar-winning movie edition of “Moulin Rouge!” proved anything in 2001, it was the glitz, glamour and razzle dazzle from the turn of the 20th [More…]

“Hadestown” a red hot, redemptive, Tony Award sweeper fit for the gods

Having swept the 2019 Tony Awards, including “Best New Musical,” and also garnering the 2020 Grammy Award for “Best Musical Theater Album,” “Hadestown” was [More…]

Paramount Theatre’s “Groundhog Day: The Musical” a funny, furry cure for pandemic fatigue

It’s only fitting that the entire Midwest region’s premiere of “Groundhog Day: The Musical,” which already racked up seven Tony Award nominations, is right here in [More…]

Leads Adam Pascal and Olivia Valli, songs by Bryan Adams add up to improved “Pretty Woman”

The pre-Broadway premiere of “Pretty Woman: The Musical” had its fair share of kinks to work out, but after it officially debuted in the Big Apple and is now swinging [More…]

Pre-Broadway’s historical “Paradise Square” poised to be “Hamilton” huge

Broadway In Chicago started showing signs of post-lockdown life with a national tour of “Rent,” but it truly came bounding back with the long-delayed debut of “Paradise [More…]

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre unpacks the empowerment and laughs in “Legally Blonde”

Given the enormous reaction to the movie “Legally Blonde” at the box office, it didn’t take long for Broadway to adapt the hilarious yet heartwarming novel by Amanda [More…]

Broadway is back in the burbs as Metropolis moves outside for “Little Shop Of Horrors”

Broadway musicals are back, at least in the burbs, thanks to the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, who are moving the 20th anniversary season’s action [More…]

Profound songwriting fills Chicagoland premiere of “Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America”

As far as the folk community goes, John Denver is one of America’s leading troubadours, though with over two decades since his untimely passing, those contributions have [More…]

Loads of humor, heart in Michael J. Fox movie to Paramount musical “The Secret Of My Success”

Towards the end of the 1980s, “The Secret Of My Success” made its motion picture debut starring Michael J. Fox hot on the heels of his era-defining roles in “Back To [More…]