Royal George Theatre Schedule

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• Darling Grenadine pours out a familiar showbiz story with a sweet score
  Marriott’s new musical hits standard narrative notes, but the songs soar Daniel Zaitchik's new musical (he wrote the songs and the book) is a sweet little show that works very, very hard to keep things real—believable characters, believable dialogue, a story that feels like a slice of life. But Zaitchik's premise is as old as […]
• ‘Setting the Stage’ tells the story of Chicago theater in 56 objects
  Lights! Costumes! Props! They’re all here at the Design Museum of Chicago A new exhibit at the Design Museum of Chicago pushes visitors through the theater's proverbial fourth wall and onto the scaffolded backstages of some of the cities most storied theaters. "Setting the Stage: Objects of Chicago Theatre," which opened to the public on […]
• Redtwist’s King Lear creates a tempest-torn world in an intimate setting
  Steve Scott's bare-bones production is storefront Shakespeare at its best. William Shakespeare's 1606 tragedy is often regarded as the Mount Everest of English drama, a towering peak of theatrical poetry whose awesome reputation both intimidates and inspires. But the great strength of Steve Scott's intimate, bare-bones, modern-dress staging of the play is its emotional humility.…
• The Music Man offers a musical conundrum at the Goodman
  Mary Zimmerman’s production sings, though the gender politics creak. You can say this for director Mary Zimmerman's staging of Meredith Willson's multiple Tony winner, The Music Man: like the titular con man in the 1957 musical, she sure knows the territory. From the corrupting influence of the bawdy humor magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang to […]
• Get up and Go-Go to Kokandy’s Head Over Heels
  A binary-busting love story weds a 16th-century romance and the music of the Go-Go’s. When the Go-Go's debuted the irresistibly catchy titular song in 1984, MTV was firmly in the era of the Video Vixen, that barely clad staple of the pop world usually seen gyrating in the background while the Top 40's overwhelmingly male […]