Steven Oxman | For the Sun-Times
A mix of cirque, cabaret and a touch of old-school vaudeville is at the core of this dinner-theater experience.
Theatrical imagination comes up short in new musical boasting a dynamic, increasingly complex lead performance by James Monroe Iglehart.
Actors bring a certain purity to visually exquisite production of Sarah Ruhl’s dreamy take on the Orpheus myth.
As the founding brothers (and many more characters), Mitchell J. Fain, Anish Jethmalani and Joey Slotnick lift Broadway Playhouse production to a very high level.
Actors capture the empathy and ambition of two vulnerable young people in the emotionally immersive play at Steppenwolf.
But this touring version raises the concern that the producers now prioritize a certain level of corporatized consistency over performative inspiration.
This is an abstract work, absurdist if you care to call it that, grounded in the realities of aging but equally informed by the instability of memories and dreams.
Characters seem to be explaining themselves to themselves in sluggish Writers Theatre production.
While the ‘Oedipus’ adaptation sometimes struggles to clarify what is sermon and what is Sophocles, the songs stir up plenty of joy.