Marriott’s production of this musical theatre classic gives ‘em socko performances and disquieting parting thoughts.

An early effort from a new musical theatre team that can’t help but feel out of place in the here-and-now.

It’s high hair and low comedy in Surging’s mounting of the light-as-aerosol Eighties-set musical.

Whodunnit, and where, and with what? Certainly not with a wire hanger, at least…

Two productions grapple with pop culture icons; another is a friendly visit from shysters.

Next to Normal might not sugar its spoonful of medicine, but it has a punchy zing all its own.

One Frank sells out; another Frank cashes in.

One sings the previously unsung; the other sure plays a mean pinball.

The Jeff Award for The Cast Having the Most Fun in the Summer of 2023 goes to Marriott’s Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.

One’s a boy and a girl tearing up the West; the other’s a boy and the man he became tearing down the superego.

If you missed Lyric’s 2019West Side Story , here’s your chance to re-engage with this star-crossed classic.

Three separate productions across Chicago, each driven in some way by an ancient impulse to come together and perform for some higher purpose.