There was a time in our country when women stayed home and raised their family—they didn’t vote or drink or smoke, and few held jobs that paid decent money.
Profiles Theatre opened its 20th season with Jason Wells’s comedy-drama “Men of Toruga,” directed by Steppenwolf’s Rick Snyder, who utilizes the very small space at Profile perfectly.
In Chicago, Rock ‘n Roll is all over town! At Lincolnshire “All Shook Up” is playing at the LaSalle Bank Theatre; “Jersey Boys” is at the Drury Lane; at Water Tower is “Buddy Holly,” and now at The Goodman Theatre is “Million Dollar Quartet,” a new musical by Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux.
John Kolvenbach’s “On an Average Day” is a black comedy and a psychological study of the two brothers, Bob (Johnny Clark) and Jack (Stef Tovar). The action takes place in the kitchen of their boyhood home.
This has been one heck of an exciting baseball year for Chicago and, with that in mind, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is presenting “Bleacher Bums,” a show that takes us back to the 1970s and the craziness that existed at the Cubs’ Wrigley Field and, in particular, in the right field bleachers.