Articles tagged with: Allison Hendrix
With a sharp-edged slice through ‘Company,’ Writers reaffirms the promise of its new home
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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’
![Bullets fly amid poignant comedy as Kokandy scores bull’s eye with Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Eric Lindahl as John Wilkes Booth in ASSASSINS Kokandy Productions (Joshua Albanese)](https://chicagoontheaisle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Eric-Lindahl-as-John-Wilkes-Booth-in-ASSASSINS-Kokandy-Productions-Joshua-Albanese-125x125.jpg)
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
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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.” ★★★★★