The Flying Dutchman at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Run Bambi Run at Milwaukee Rep; and Ring of Fire at Drury Lane Oakbrook.

Hamilton is back for another months-long sit-down in Chicago, and how lucky we are to be alive right now to see these people in this room making it happen.

If Baked! needs more time to come into its own, it definitely has a whiff of the welcomingly off-beat.

Local favorite Landree Fleming lays down roots on the big Paramount stage with a big production of this perennial musical.

Marriott’s production of this musical theatre classic gives ‘em socko performances and disquieting parting thoughts.

An early effort from a new musical theatre team that can’t help but feel out of place in the here-and-now.

It’s high hair and low comedy in Surging’s mounting of the light-as-aerosol Eighties-set musical.

Whodunnit, and where, and with what? Certainly not with a wire hanger, at least…

Two productions grapple with pop culture icons; another is a friendly visit from shysters.

Next to Normal might not sugar its spoonful of medicine, but it has a punchy zing all its own.

One Frank sells out; another Frank cashes in.

One sings the previously unsung; the other sure plays a mean pinball.