Spotlight on Reviews

**** Highly Recommended  This is your chance, Chicago!  Broadway-bound "Death Becomes Her" is absolutely fabulous!  It’s a gorgeous, outrageously funny, larger than life, almost old-fashioned musical.  The music is glorious, the lyrics are fast-paced and snarky, the costumes sparkly and the frenemies just bitchy enough.  With standing ovations from the opening night audience the stars have aligned and this show is a hit!  Best of all – Chicagoans have bragging rights – we saw it before Broadway!  4 BIG Spotlights

**** Recommended  Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production, "The Thanksgiving Play," is a biting satire about political correctness.  In this story about an elementary school Thanksgiving play, political correctness has totally run amok. The characters are such earnest, self-righteous and self-congratulatory people that I absolutely hated them, yet I laughed at their antics.  3 ½ Spotlights

**** Recommended   Picture the ultimate sleaze-ball of all time, put him up against his own mortality, and you’ll get "Judgment Day," the world premiere comedy playing in the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.  It’s not a new idea but it stars Jason Alexander – who can deliver a devastatingly funny one-liner better than anyone – and it’s hilarious.  I laughed so hard my face hurt!  4 Spotlights

**** Recommended  "Jump," Shattered Globe’s final production of the season, is a gripping and poignant drama about grief, loss and the fallout from suicide with a   couple of surprising twists to keep it interesting. It’s beautifully done, but kind of heavy going. In fact, I found myself tearing up several times.  A warning - some characters vape and/or smoke. 3 ½ Spotlights