Profile for MidWestTheater

I don't know about NY...but if you are coming to Chicago this fall, there is an incredible production that is being done with Broadway in Chicago. This is a production from Kokandy, a store front non-equity theater here in Chicago, that was done last fall and it was brilliant. They set it in a victorian era operating room with a 19 piece orchestra. This production did so well it kept extending, and this fall it is returning in one of the larger houses here in Chicago. I'm someone who is not a...

I saw this show on Saturday night and I think the best way to describe is just...silly. This is a silly show, it's just ridculous which is not a bad thing. I laughed a ton in the first act, not so much in the second. The second act does feel pretty laborious, if they could find a way to tighten this show and possibly make it a one act, I think you'll have something that is a hell of a lot of fun. Like a previous poster said, Megan Mullally is basically doing her Elizabeth from "Young Frankens...

I'm going on the 27th...super excited to see this. I didn't realize Nick Offerman use to have his own theater company in Chicago.

It's coming to Chicago for a few weeks in November.

SteveSanders said: "2.5 stars from Chris Jones at the Chicago Tribune for Brokeback Mountain at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/05/review-brokeback-mountain-chicago-shakespeare/"Yeah, we saw it a few weeks ago and it's not good. Amazing set design, and I was actually seated next to the set designer. However, this did not work at all. It felt like it was maybe at one time supposed to be a musical, but that didn't work, so this hybrid situation of a play and s...

Jamie Lloyd has already mounted a production of passion at the Donmar back in 2010 with Elena Roger...I wonder if this does happen will it be that production. Kind of how he basically brought his Regents Park production of Evita to the west end. Also weren't there rumors of Lea Michele and Johnathon Groff possibly collaborating again. Would love to see her in this as Clara.

I saw the production in Chicago last week and it's fantastic. I had never seen the show before and thought it was just stunning. Dave Malloy really is working on a different level then a lot of composers. If you are in the area between now and beginning head over to the Raven Theater and catch it. I know the show is sold out until May 22. I would not be surprised if this extended.

For me it's Alden Ehrenreich...who I actually think will win. Normally I'm not the biggest supporter when Hollywood comes to Broadway (of course I realize he has his own theatre company), but that was really a very tricky character to get right and he was astonishing

I've been saying it for years...DICK WOLF!

Since it seems to be having a renaissance...Amadeus. I would pay big money for a Meryl Streep Saliari.

The keychain of CATS: The Jellicle Ball is amazing. Although it is kind of large, I really love it.

We saw this on our trip last weekend, going in completely cold and was enthralled. We found it so funny, almost like Neil LaBute but lite. Alden Ehrenreich completely blew me away. He was so perfect for a very tricky character, that has to be charming but also a dick. If him or Linda Edmond do not get tony nominations, what are we even doing. I even thought Madeline Brewer was fantastic. When we saw it and she made her entrance one person clapped, which was kind of strange, then I realized th...

I just saw Becky Shaw this past Sunday and I have to completely agree with the other posts about Alden Ehrenreich. He was sensational in this very tricky role. He could be the dark horse of this season. I hope to hear his and Linda Edmond's names on Tony nomination morning.

I'm so curious about this new musical from Mark Hollerman (Urinetown) coming to the Goodman in a few months. The plot sounds bonkers, but I'm here for it. Has anyone heard anything about this show yet?A musical 40,000 years in the making.Broadway’s brightest star of 1938, Vera Vimm (Megan Mullally/Will & Grace), is at the top of her game. But when she adopts a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal discovered frozen in the Arctic, the spotlight begins to shift. As Iceboy thaws, he unexpectedly becomes a...

I enjoyed her production of The Color Purple, it wasn't in the seem league of John Doyle's production, but I enjoyed it. I really loved her productions of Eureka Day and The Hot Wing King. I'm so curious about her placing the production more in the Harlem Renaissance, and being inspired by the dark tower. Mostly I"m super excited to see so much Chicago talent on NY Stage.

Love that Lili-Ann Brown is wearing "The Understudy" shirt...the Chicago Theatre Bookstore.

That's interesting that this production seems to be ignoring the "audience participation" element from the movie. (Who's to say, the show hasn't started yet) I remember seeing the last revival, and I was a fan of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I wasn't super as familiar with audience participation script. There was a guy next to me, who knew everything to say, and he was yelling it out, as were others. But let's also remember it's not just yelling things out, but also there are things lik...

Kokandy Productions is putting on "Hair" in July at the Chopin Theatre. They are hands down one of the best musical companies here in Chicago. What they are able to do with with so little is kind of incredible. Their phenomenal Jekyll and Hyde is actually going to be a part of the Broadway in Chicago theater season in the fall. If you can get out to Aurora. Paramount Theatre is putting on South Pacific. They are the opposite of Kokandy in that they put on huge productions with large casts and...

quizking101 said: "Sutton Ross said: "Yummy"I’m gonna need Alladin and Donica to roll into CHESS when the time comes. I think Donica as Anatoly would be an on-par replacement for Nicholas Christopher" oh no...if this is not the cast for a new revival of "Design for Living" what are we even doing.