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Little Shop of Horrors Review – A Funny, Frightful, Possibly Too Faithful Revival

September 19, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

Days after seeing Drury Lane’s Little Shop of Horrors, what stuck with me were the capillaries. Audrey II may make its adorably ominous debut as a little potted bit of felt, no bigger than one […]

Arms and the Man Review – Love in the Time of War and Peace in a Charming Shaw Production

September 16, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

In the cozy space on the second floor of the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, a set portrays another cozy space, the bedchambers of a well-read Bulgarian heiress named Raina Petkoff with a penchant for the theatrical. […]

Songs for Nobodies Review – Part Musical Revue, Part One-Woman Show… All Amazing

September 12, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

Songs for Nobodies presents a veritable feast for the right performer: it is part tribute to great women singers of the mid-20th century; part one-woman show about how those singers directly or indirectly impacted the […]

Legally Blonde Review – Omigod You Guys is Right…This Show’s a Delight

September 11, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

I attended one of the opening weekend performances of Frozen on Broadway this spring… and I believe the excitement in the audience was slightly less ebullient than the one with which I saw Paramount’s Legally […]

Heartbreak House and Measure for Measure Review – Idyllic Surroundings Frame a Thought-Provoking Night at the Theatre

August 28, 2018 Jessie Bylander 1

The muggy afternoons and mosquito-heavy evenings in Wisconsin may not sound like the ideal time or place to spend 2-plus hours pondering the human condition, the governments and other social systems we have built and […]

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily Review – Victorian Era Mashup Mystery in Milwaukee

August 18, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

There’s a moment in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily when Sherlock Holmes joyfully utters “The game’s afoot”… only to have his pursuit of the case derailed by another knock on the […]

“Neverwhere” Review – Heading to the Below for a Timely Allegory

June 24, 2018 Jessie Bylander 0

Though Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is, by genre definition, a fantasy, residents of Chicago will recognize the location at the heart of the story: a transit system which is home to both 9-5 commuters and the […]