Double Fine and the Documentary of Transparency
What if players were allowed to get a glimpse of what's really going on? Thoughts on Double Fine's decision to film the development of Broken Age. The post Double Fine and the Documentary of...
View ArticlePerils of the New Hearthstoner
Thoughts on Hearthstone, the F2P collectible card game that's grown exponentially in the past year and a half. The post Perils of the New Hearthstoner appeared first on read buzz.
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Shaw Festival
Just twenty miles north of Niagara Falls, Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River is Niagara-on-the-Lake. You would be hard pressed to find a municipality this size (about one fourth the population...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Stratford Festival
Still going strong in September is Canada’s Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. A good twelve hour drive from east central Illinois, it offers the classics of the theater from all ages for all...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Disgraced
The Goodman Theatre has brought back to Chicago one of the most discussed plays of the last few years, Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced. Kimberly Senior’s direction of this 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner reminds us...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: East of Eden
3 of 5 stars The Steppenwolf Theatre Company begins its 40th Anniversary season with an ambitious adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 East of Eden. The Chicago-based company has had a successful, long...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Never the Sinner
The Victory Gardens Theater’s production of John Logan’s Never the Sinner is guaranteed to captivate audiences with its unusual tale of two University of Chicago students facing possible execution for...
View ArticleBook Review: The Penguin Arthur Miller
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of the late and great playwright, Arthur Miller, the Penguin Press has published The Penguin Arthur Miller, Collected Plays. The post Book Review: The Penguin...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Fans of singer Carole King should be completely satisfied by Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which opened recently for a more than two-month run at Chicago’s Ford Oriental Theatre. The post Theatre...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Satchmo at the Waldorf
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (1901-1971) was one of the great jazz trumpeters of the formative jazz era. He added to that a distinctive vocal style and an effervescent personality that could capture and...
View ArticleBook Review: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Jeff Nelson delivers a scintillating history lesson on an early brush with pirates in the history of the United States. The post Book Review: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates appeared first on...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Another Word for Beauty
Chicago’s Goodman Theater begins the 2016 theatre season in a big way with the ambitious world premiere of Jose Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty. This unlikely tale of a beauty pageant in Bogotá,...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Mothers and Sons
In his five decades of writing for the stage, Terrance McNally has done much to broaden public awareness in many areas, especially American gay culture. Mothers and Sons (2013) is getting its Chicago...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Cabaret
John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret began as a sensation on Broadway in 1966, ran for 1,165 performances, won eight Tony Awards, and never looked back as a bankable musical. Every production of Cabaret...
View ArticleTheatre Review: The Flick
Annie Baker’s The Flick is a 21st Century neo-naturalistic slice of life that meanders in realistic chatter and creates minimal empathy. The post Theatre Review: The Flick appeared first on read buzz.
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: 42nd Street
42nd Street, currently at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, packs a wonderful range of entertainment and old fashioned humor in a couple of hours. The post Theatre Reviews: 42nd Street appeared...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: The Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker has had many incarnations, from a one-act farce in 1835 to one of the most successful stage musicals in the 1960s. The current production of the 1955 script at...
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Matilda, the Musical
The national tour of Matilda, the Musical is a high energy adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 dark children's fantasy novel The post Theatre Reviews: Matilda, the Musical appeared first on read buzz.
View ArticleTheatre Reviews: Arcadia
Riches abound in Michael Halberstam’s production of Arcadia at the Writers Theatre in Glencoe The post Theatre Reviews: Arcadia appeared first on read buzz.
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A Look at the Stratford Festival
Jeff some of reviews the Stratford Festival's early openings. The post A Look at the Stratford Festival appeared first on read buzz.
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