Steadstyle Chicago Reviews

Redmoon Theater presents The Astronaut’s Birthday through September 26, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Astronaut's Birthday

Disney On Ice presents Princess Classics September 8, 2010 at The United Center

Disney on Ice: The Princess Classics

Seanachaí Theatre Company presents The Weir by Conor McPherson August 26-October 3, 2010 at The Irish American Heritage Center.

The Weir

The Neo-Futurists' production of Daredevils' Hamlet opens Saturday, August 21-September 25, 2010. Photo by Mandy Currado-Gutwaks.

Daredevils' Hamlet

Arthur Miller’s A Memory of Two Mondays concludes Eclipse Theatre’s 2010 Season September 5-October 17, 2010 at The Greenhouse Theater Center. Photo by Scott Cooper.

A Memory of Two Mondays

Mortar Theatre presents Under America through September 26, 2010 at The Athenaeum Theatre

Under America

City Lit Theater presents Lovers by Brian Friel through October 3, 2010. Photo by Johnny Knight.

Lovers

Babes With Blades presents the world premiere production of The Last Daughter of Oedipus at Lincoln Square Theatre August 23-September 25, 2010. Photo credit: Steven Townshend.

The Last Daughter of Oedipus

Songwriting for Dummies book

Songwriting for Dummies

Greenetree Productions presents Blues for an Alabama Sky through September 19, 2010 at Stage 773

Blues for an Alabama Sky

LiveWire Chicago Theatre presents the World Premiere of Hideous Progeny through September 26, 2010 at the DCA Storefront Theater

Hideous Progeny

TimeLine Theatre Company presents Frost/Nixon August 17-October 10, 2010

Frost/Nixon

Drury Lane Oakbrook presents Hot Mikado through October 3, 2010. Photo credit: Brett Beiner.

Hot Mikado

The Guild Theater presents the controversial drama Blackbird by David Harrower, August 16-18 and 23-25, 2010 at Stage Left Theatre

Blackbird

Provision Theater Company presents the musical Godspell through September 26, 2010

Godspell

Light Opera Works presents Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel August 14-29, 2010 at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston. Photo Credit: Rich Foreman.

Carousel

Genesis Ensemble presents In Love's Bright Coils through August 30, 2010 at The Charnel House

In Love's Bright Coils

Up & Coming Theatre presents the musical Hairspray August 6-8 and 12-15, 2010 at Cutting Hall Theater, 150 E Wood St in Palatine.

Hairspray

The Neopolitans present Iphigeneology, an adaptation of Euripides' Iphigenia, through August 15, 2010 at the Lenz Gallery

Iphigeneology

The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who inspired Chicago, a Viking novel by Douglas Perry

The Girls of Murder City

Piven Theatre presents Late: A Cowboy Song by Sara Ruhl through August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Chris Tzoubris.

Late: A Cowboy Song

The State Theatre of Chicago presents Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian through August 15 at the Heartland Studio in Rogers Park.

Talk Radio

Red Tape Theatre presents Les Enfants Terribles Prom Night July 19-August 14, 2010. Photo by Rom Hartmon.

Les Enfants Terribles Prom Night

The fairy tale classic Pinocchio gets a new spin in Marc Robin’s imaginative, musical version running at Marriott Theatre For Young Audiences, July 15-August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Peter Coombs and Marriott Theatre.

Pinocchio

Broadway in Chicago presents Shrek the Musical through September 5, 2010 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Shrek the Musical

Idle Muse Theatre Company presents Sherlock Holmes The Final Adventure through August 22, 2010 at the Side Project Theatre

Sherlock Holmes The Final Adventure

Victory Gardens presents the World Premiere of Ensemble Playwright Joel Drake Johnson’s A Guide For The Perplexed featuring Kevin Anderson and Francis Guinan July 9–August 15, 2010. Photo by Liz Lauren.

A Guide for the Perplexed

Oak Park Festival Theatre presents Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare July 19-August 21, 2010 in Austin Gardens. Photo by Michael E. Rothman.

Love's Labour's Lost

Try to Remember, a DVD documentary of the world's longest-running musical The Fantasticks

Try to Remember: The Fantasticks on DVD

The Second City presents Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies in an open run. Photo by John McCloskey.

Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies

Steppenwolf Theatre presents A Parallelogram, a new play by Bruce Norris July 1-August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Michael Brosilow.

A Parallelogram

First Folio Theatre presents William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night July 7-August 8, 2010.

Twelfth Night

Chicago Shakespeare Theater premieres The Emperor's New Clothes, a New Family Musical June 30-August 29, 2010. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Marriott Theatre presents the musical Once on this Island through August 29, 2010. Photo credit: Peter Coombs and Marriott Theatre.

Once on this Island

Lookingglass Theatre Company presents Lookingglass Alice through September 12, 2010

Lookingglass Alice

Black Ensemble Theater presents Nothing But the Blues through August 29, 2010. Photo by Danny Nicholas.

Nothing But the Blues

The Gift Theatre presents the World Premiere of Suicide Incorporated June 10-October 10, 2010

Suicide, Incorporated

Broadway The American Musical, the companion book to the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary, is published by Applause Books

Broadway The American Musical Book

The musical Nine is now available on DVD

Nine on DVD

Frank Langella stars in the 2008 film version of Frost/Nixon, now available on DVD.

Frost/Nixon on DVD

The Best Drama from Stage to Screen

The American Stage

The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life plays an open run at Second City e.t.c.

The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life

Frank Wildhorn's new musical Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adventure is now on CD. Photo by Michal Daniel.

Wonderland on CD

Broadway In Chicago launches the Chicago company of the Tony Award winning Billy Elliot the Musical playing through January 15, 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre. Photo credit: Joan Marcus.

Billy Elliot The Musical

Mister Roberts starring Robert Hays, Kevin Bacon and Charles Durning

Mister Roberts and Bus Stop on Video

Barrel of Monkeys, the Chicago-based arts education theater ensemble, brings their popular weekly showcase That's Weird, Grandma to The Neo-Futurarium in an open run.

That's Weird, Grandma

The long running hit musical Million Dollar Quartet continues its run through January 2, 2011 at the Apollo Theatre. Photos by Paul Natkin.

Million Dollar Quartet

Theatre World and Screen World books are published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Theatre World and Screen World

Forbidden Broadway Behind the Mylar Curtain is a new book published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain

Charlotte d'Amboise in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, the subject of the video Every Little Step. Photo by Paul Kolnik.

Broadway Musicals on DVD

Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, a book by Carol de Giere published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Defying Gravity