The raucous, Shakespeare-adjacent pop musical is self-empowering larger-than-life fun.

Should patrons swim out to Oakbrook Terrace for to Drury Lane’s Little Mermaid? Positoovily!

This holiday season, Theo’s Secret Garden may just be the perfect musical to remind us that caring and nurturing one another pull up the weeds of life.

Marriott’s White Christmas is a more-than-welcome dollop of seasonal schmaltz.

Lincolnshire puts on a timely and exquisitely modern-ish turn on the old-school-ish history pagaent.

Highland Park Players hosts an all-inclusive 'Prom' reminding us that, indeed, “It’s Time to Dance!”

With a charity production to benefit the Highland Park Shooting Recovery Fund, Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park puts itself on the Chicagoland musical theatre map with a full-throated Les Misérables.

Don’t go mad in the heat this summer—Chicago’s got two new regional premieres to cool you down.

Director E. Faye Butler and her stellar Drury Lane team infuse Chicagoland with the resurrection of the iconic Fats Waller, talents left behind but not forgotten, and the undeniable vibe that adds some honeyed sweetness to summer’s heat.

With a terrific all-female onstage band and six alternatively bobby-soxed, mini-skirted, bell-bottomed and day-glo-clad triple-threat gals, this summer’s Beehive is all honey, no sting.

Often described as “whipped cream with knives”, the musicianship of Theo’s Little Night Music is the dollop on top of an all-around sharp production.

Beautiful at Paramount Theatre; On the Twentieth Century thru Blank Theatre Company; and Death Becomes Her thru Broadway in Chicago.