This nostalgic joyride begins with Jacqueline Miller, a rock star who had a lot of success but is concerned with her manager's direction for her career and her funds. So, with the help of 12-year-old Jackie Miller, her retrospective journey back to 1977, reliving her past, she hopes to find herself again. Skates is a refreshing blast from the past and a groovy way to spend an evening.

THE MAGNOLIA BALLET's spellbinding message is provocatively candid and exhilaratingly refreshing. It not only opens the doors to the truth of our hatred but reminds us it's still alive and needs to be eradicated through understanding and love.  

MTW's The Little Mermaid was one of the best Disney productions I've seen in years. MTW aims to present a full spectrum of musical theater, creating a bridge for all audiences from classic works to the present. And based on the outstanding interpretation we saw from the cast of the Little Mermaid, Music Theater Works is the theatrical gem you want to add to your theater agenda.

Paying homage to her grandmother, Bester's story message about family, love, and overcoming generational curses through healing will have you joyously in tears as you sing and dance to the music. 

Broadway In Chicago's first National Tour of Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations is here, and its show-stopping thrilling performance brings that Motown magic you don't want to miss! It's magnificent! This Tony-winning Broadway musical, now playing at the Broadway Cadillac Palace Theatre, is an exhilarating blast from the past that will have you dancing in your seat.

This is Wilson's sixth in his ten-part series, The Pittsburgh Cycle, which embodies psychological trauma and changing perspectives regarding race through the eyes of African-American characters. Wilson masterfully manipulates and alters his characters' vocabulary, body language, and phrasing of words to intensify their meaning in each scene.

Broadway in Chicago has brought to the Nederlander Theatre the hit Broadway play To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the best-selling book by Harper Lee, and it's one of the most provocative and profound masterpieces to hit Chicago Theaters in a long time.

Director Helen Young masterfully reels us in like a fish on a hook that is slowly losing its will as we see the young Afong Moy's childlike manner and excitement fade as she discovers how people coming to the exhibit view her. The joy of coming to another country and representing her heritage and Afong Moy's dreams of seeing and visiting American cities is dampened; when she realizes that their curiosity about her and her fictional habitat is seen as nothing more than a carnival sideshow.

Mary Tilden (Athena) and Aja Singletary (Mary Wallace) spearhead this 80-minute performance where two aloof teens discuss desires and fears. Both are fine in their performance, and their sarcastic and witty dialogue is entertaining.

Adapted and Directed by Ensemble Member David Catlin, provides the audience with an exhilarating 90 minutes that is insanely witty and brilliantly entertaining. You can't help but smile and laugh out loud with the outlandish performances as the kooky cast of characters are juggling, bouncy and throwing balls, swinging, and riding a tricycle.

The cast of ensemble members acting in the performance of Seagull was stimulating enough to hold your attention (Namir Smallwood was outstanding as the bewildered Konstantin). Still, the play itself is a morbid reminder of what most people would like to forget. Because of the cast, Seagull is an exhilarating theater groupie performance.

Several amusing and heart-warming scenes in this two-hour performance will captivate you. Two enjoyable moments were when Peter meets Barb after a self-help seminar where Peter has electric shock devices connected to him to help with his compulsive lying. And the compassionate scene where Marty, dealing with memory loss, meets with Jill and Steve. Kudos to the performance by Jared Sheldon, who was fantastic in his duel role of Marty and Douglas.

The unorthodox mixture of comedy, love, and loyalty is proof why this lesser-known play didn't receive rave reviews. It's hard to question the greatest of Shakespeare; however, in this play, the disconnection between characters, their emotions reverse of love and detestation feelings is puzzling.

Spring Awakening expresses adolescents' fascination for physical intimacy ("Touch Me"), discussing feelings about homosexuality, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, incest, suicide, conception, and abortion.

But Esther, who is in her thirties and never married, and longing for love, gets a strange letter from an unknown man through a mutual acquaintance. The gentleman romantically sending courtship letters to her is named George Armstrong, a Caribbean man working on the Panama Canal.

The New York vs. Chicago productions of Moulin Rouge is complete now that we saw the Broadway In Chicago The North American Tour show yesterday, and it was spectacular, spectacular. We give a slight edge to the New York production,

Marriott Theatre's The Sound of Music is one of the best performances of this production I have ever seen. From the nuns to the children, this play is magnificent. And the singing will have you captivated, thrusting you to sing out your favorite songs. Everyone in this play is amazing.

The Prom is a sensational feel-good story we all need to experience. I love the message of The Prom.

Divorced, Beheaded, Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.

It's got more energy than the energizing bunny and is 80 minutes of pure euphoria. We meet six women who describe their life, love, and lack of longevity being married to King Henry VIII.

Playwright Tyla Abercrumbie blows us away with this brilliant and wonderfully written play that points out one of the main reasons Black Americans feel enslaved by hatred and racism that still plagues us today. Abercrumbie teams up with one of Chicago's greatest directors Ron OJ Parsons as they bring this world premiere play RELENTLESS to TimeLine Theater at The Goodman Theatre.