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With a sharp-edged slice through ‘Company,’ Writers reaffirms the promise of its new home

Jul 31, 2016 – 11:26 am
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Review: It has been only a half-season inauguration, this first series of plays in Writers Theatre’s splendid new building, but the finale, a sly and penetrating account of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company,” exemplifies how the main stage offers visitors an intimate, indeed an ideal, theatrical experience. ★★★★

Bullets fly amid poignant comedy as Kokandy scores bull’s eye with Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’

Jul 7, 2014 – 8:13 pm
Eric Lindahl as John Wilkes Booth in ASSASSINS Kokandy Productions (Joshua Albanese)

Review: Imagine a homicidal hearts club of a very particular kind, where killers of U.S. presidents (and would-be killers) gather to clash and kibitz and relive the “why” in a time-bending collage, and you have “Assassins.” Chicago’s latest pocket production of the John Weidman-Stephen Sondheim 1990 classic comes at the close of a remarkable season for precision-cut Sondheim stagings, and this is one of them. ★★★★

When The Hypocrites bound ‘Into the Woods,’ something special blooms from almost nothing

Feb 14, 2014 – 6:06 pm
Happily ever after proves to be short-lived in The Hypocrites' production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods.' (Matthew Gregory Hollis)

Review: From paper and string and other found objects — in the hands of a wonderfully talented cast and a whiz of a director — The Hypocrites theater company has cobbled together a magical production of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale mash-up musical “Into the Woods.” ★★★★★