Review: "Cabaret" by Porchlight Music Theatre
There's so much that's new in this fresh Chicago production, and "Cabaret" is a musical that has taken some notably different directions before.
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There's so much that's new in this fresh Chicago production, and "Cabaret" is a musical that has taken some notably different directions before.
There’s nothing retro and everything urgent about Porchlight Music Theatre’s exquisitely cast, visually stunning production.
Plenty of laughs but little else leaves a talented cast in search of a plot.
I have to report, in all fairness, that much of the audience around me was convulsed with laughter throughout the whole affair.
Paramount's inaugural Bold Series concludes with "Bull: a love story," a play developed through its Inception Project; Evanston's Theo Ubique presents "Refuge," a play about immigration that incorporates music and puppetry; and Mercury Theater revives the comedy mystery "Clue," this week in Chicago-area theater.