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Critics' Theatre Review Round-Up Of Shows Currently Playing
Theatre In Chicago lists the reviews from 23 different Chicago area publications. We currently have reviews listed for 68 shows now playing, and a total of 417 different reviews!!!

Ambrose Bierce: Tales and Times (1 Review) Lincoln Square Theater America: All Better! (6 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Second City An Apology For the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening (6 Reviews) Theater Oobleck at Chopin Theatre Bastards of Young (4 Reviews) Tympanic Theatre Company at Side Project Best Of Second City (1 Review) Second City The Black Duckling (1 Review) Jeff Recommended* Dream Theatre Blue Man Group (2 Reviews) Briar Street Theatre C'est la vie (4 Reviews) Light Opera Works at McGaw YMCA Calls to Blood (6 Reviews) The New Colony at Royal George Theatre Co-Ed Prison Sluts (6 Reviews) Annoyance Theatre ComedySportz (1 Review) Comedy Sportz Cotton Patch Gospel (7 Reviews) Provision Theater Company Days to Come (8 Reviews) The Artistic Home Death of a Salesman (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Raven Theatre Dooby Dooby Moo (3 Reviews) Lifeline Theatre End Days (4 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Next Theatre Company Ernani (2 Reviews) Lyric Opera Fake (15 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Steppenwolf Theatre The Fantasticks (11 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Porchlight Music Theatre at Theatre Building Chicago Faust (2 Reviews) Lyric Opera Fedra: Queen of Haiti (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Lookingglass Theatre 1512 West Studebaker Place (2 Reviews) Brain Surgeon Theater at Prop Theatre The Flowers (7 Reviews) About Face Theatre at Stage Left Theatre The Glorious Ones (7 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Bohemian Theatre Ensemble at BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio Graceland (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Profiles Theatre at National Pastime Theater Hairspray (14 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Marriott Theatre In Lincolnshire Heroes (11 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Remy Bumppo Theatre at The Greenhouse Theater Center The House on Mango Street (7 Reviews) Steppenwolf Theatre The Hundred Dresses (5 Reviews) Chicago Children's Theatre at Royal George Theatre Ivanov (7 Reviews) SiNNERMAN Ensemble at The Viaduct Jersey Boys (13 Reviews) Bank of America Theatre (formerly LaSalle Bank Theatre) Kill the Old Torture Their Young (5 Reviews) Steep Theatre The Last Unicorn (6 Reviews) Promethean Theatre Ensemble at City Lit Theater The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A New Folk Musical (3 Reviews) Filament Theatre Ensemble at The Viaduct Lettice and Lovage (10 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Redtwist Theatre Lucinda's Bed (9 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Chicago Dramatists Man of La Mancha (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Theo Ubique at No Exit Cafe The Man Who Was Thursday (6 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* New Leaf Theatre at Lincoln Park Cultural Center The Mercy Seat (13 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Profiles Theatre The Message Is In The Music (7 Reviews) Black Ensemble Theater Million Dollar Quartet (14 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Dee Gee Theatricals & John Cossette Productions at Apollo Theater The Modern Prometheus (2 Reviews) RBP Rorschack Mojo Mickybo (4 Reviews) Seanachaí Theatre Company at The Artistic Home ObamaNation: Revised Edition! (1 Review) 4 Days Late at Playground Theater Resurrection (2 Reviews) eta Creative Arts Foundation Rhymes With Evil (6 Reviews) InFusion Theatre Company at Storefront Theater Richard III (13 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Chicago Shakespeare Theater Romeo and Juliet (1 Review) Janus Theatre Company at Elgin Art Showcase Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Writers' Theatre Saints and Sinners (3 Reviews) Royal George Theatre Sex (2 Reviews) Prologue Theatre Co. at North Lakeside Cultural Center Spoon River Anthology (2 Reviews) Saint Sebastian Players at St. Bonaventure Church A Streetcar Named Desire (3 Reviews) Polarity Ensemble Theatre at Josephinum Academy Studs Terkel's Not Working (10 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Second City The Sublime Beauty Of Hands and Klown Kantos (2 Reviews) Theatre Zarko Summer People (4 Reviews) The Gift Theatre Ten Square (7 Reviews) MPAACT at Truman College- O'Rourke Theatre These Shining Lives (2 Reviews) Rivendell Theatre Ensemble at Raven Theatre Thoroughly Modern Millie (6 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Drury Lane- Oakbrook Tommy Gun's Garage (1 Review) Tommy Gun's Garage Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (2 Reviews) Neo-Futurists Tosca (3 Reviews) Lyric Opera Treasure Island (12 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* Lifeline Theatre Two By Pinter: The Lover and The Collection (8 Reviews) Piven Theatre Votes For Women! (4 Reviews) ShawChicago at Ruth Page Center For Arts Yeast Nation (the triumph of life) (14 Reviews) Jeff Recommended* American Theatre Company You Can't Take It With You (2 Reviews) Village Players Performing Arts Center Young Frankenstein (5 Reviews) Cadillac Palace Theatre
See which of these above shows are the top rated by going to the "T.I.C. Top List" page.

*The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed outstanding by the opening night judges of The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee. The entire production is then eligible for nomination for awards at the end of the season. To find out more information visit JeffAwards.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------