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| T.I.C. TOP LIST - The Highest Rated Shows In Chicago |
The "Theatre In Chicago (T.I.C.) Top List" is a list of the top rated plays now running in the Chicago area based on what the current reviews are saying. To see all of the play reviews go to Review Round-Up.
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| A Steady Rain |
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| Royal George Theatre |
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| A Steady Rain chronicles love and rage on the streets of Chicago as a domestic disturbance call sends two Chicago cops, friends since childhood, on a harrowing journey that will test their loyalties and change their lives forever. During a routine day, a pair of seasoned policemen, Denny and Joey, return a panic-stricken boy to his guardian. The two protagonists relate their shared story from very different perspectives, giving a picture of family in all its forms, along with the questionable moral choices made in its name. As their lifelong friendship is put to the ultimate test, both men must deal with honor and loyalty in the face of adversity. After a successful run at Chicago Dramatists the play moved to the current location of Royal George Theatre.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with Keith Huff, the playwright of A Steady Rain 
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Chicago Tribune-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Sun Times-
Highly Recommended
Daily Herald-
Highly Recommended
Daily Southtown-
Highly Recommended
Time Out Chicago-
Recommended
Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Free Press-
Highly Recommended
Gay Chicago Magazine-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
Steadstyle Chicago-
Highly Recommended
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| Fiorello! |
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| TimeLine Theatre Company |
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| Ahead of its time when it premiered in 1959 and often called a neglected masterpiece, Fiorello! is a classic Broadway musical that features heartbreaking ballads (“When Did I Fall in Love”), rousing chorus numbers (“Politics and Poker”) and melodic showstoppers (“Little Tin Box”) to tell the story of one small, honest man’s struggle against corruption in big-city politics. With guts and perseverance, Fiorello H. LaGuardia put a bright, new shine on “The Big Apple” and became one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century. This remount will feature most of the original cast and production staff, including TimeLine Artistic Director PJ Powers as the title character. |
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Chicago Tribune-
Highly Recommended
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Time Out Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Free Press-
Highly Recommended
Gay Chicago Magazine-
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ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
Steadstyle Chicago-
Highly Recommended
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| Sweet Charity |
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| Drury Lane- Oakbrook |
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| Sweet Charity tells the story of an optimistic, but unlucky-in-love young woman, Charity, who not only wears her heart on her sleeve, but also has it tattooed to her arm. After several experiences with the ups and downs of love, fate brings Charity together with another unexpected potential Mr. Right.
Listen to "Talk Theatre In Chicago" for an interview with Summer Smart, the star of Sweet Charity
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Chicago Tribune-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Sun Times-
Highly Recommended
Daily Herald-
Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
Pioneer Press-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Somewhat Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Free Press-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
Steadstyle Chicago-
Highly Recommended
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| Our Town |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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| Company ends its season of classics with Thornton Wilder's pivotal tale centering around the beauty in our everyday lives that we rarely take time to appreciate. Theme rings truer today as our modern lives mask the magnificence of the personal moments on our journey from birth to death. |
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Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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| Jersey Boys |
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| Bank of America Theatre (formerly LaSalle Bank Theatre) |
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| This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide – all before they were thirty! JERSEY BOYS features their hit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.”
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Chicago Tribune-
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Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Free Press-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
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Steadstyle Chicago-
Highly Recommended
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| Les Miserables |
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| Marriott Theatre In Lincolnshire |
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| Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, Les Miserables travels through three turbulent decades of 19th century France. Full of romance, passion, suspense and humanity, it is the story of one man, the fugitive Jean Valjean, who is pitted against the self-righteous Inspector Javert in a lifelong struggle to evade capture. Les Miserables is the winner of over 50 international theater awards, including eight 1987 Tony Awards (two of which were for Best Musical and Best Score). |
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Chicago Tribune-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Sun Times-
Highly Recommended
Daily Southtown-
Highly Recommended
Time Out Chicago-
Recommended
Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Somewhat Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
Gay Chicago Magazine-
Highly Recommended
Copley News Service-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
Steadstyle Chicago-
Highly Recommended
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| Around the World in 80 Days |
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| Lookingglass Theatre |
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| Lookingglass audiences will travel Around the World in 80 Days, when Ensemble member Laura Eason directs her world premiere adaptation of Jules Verne's grand adventure. Lookingglass' flexible theater space inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works will morph into countless exotic foreign locales, as Eason, her cast and crew take audiences on a whirlwind tour around the world in this fast, fun new production for the entire family. |
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Chicago Tribune-
Recommended
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Highly Recommended
Daily Southtown-
Highly Recommended
Time Out Chicago-
Recommended
Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
TheatreMania-
Somewhat Recommended
Copley News Service-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
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| Knute Rockne All-American |
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| Theatre At The Center |
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| World premiere musical chronicles the life of beloved Notre Dame icon Knute Rockne, the legendary football coach known for his sportsmanship. Show recounts the accomplishments and milestones of one of the most innovative and charismatic coaches of his era. |
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Highly Recommended
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Somewhat Recommended
EpochTimes-
Highly Recommended
ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
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| Wicked |
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| Ford Oriental Theatre |
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| Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years.
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Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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| The Strangerer |
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| Chopin Theatre |
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| The Strangerer collides several of Camus’ works with the first Bush/Kerry presidential debate in 2004. The formalities of the debate are overturned as Bush and Kerry struggle with the question not of if or why an innocent man should be killed (the man in question being moderator Jim Lehrer), but rather what is the proper manner in which to go about killing him. The Strangerer is part political satire, part classical drama, and part contemporary debate. A murder mystery with the murderers in plain view, it asks one of the most important questions of our day: “Why does our president want to kill so many innocent people?” |
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Chicago Reader-
Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
Gay Chicago Magazine-
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ChicagoCritic-
Somewhat Recommended
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| I Am Who I Am |
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| Black Ensemble Theater |
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| He was considered to be soul music’s number one sex symbol in the 70’s with songs like “Turn Off The Lights”, “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”, and “Wake Up Everybody”, just to name a few. He was on top of the world and at the height of his career in 1982 until his devastating car accident that left him a quadriplegic. There is so much to understand and admire about Teddy Pendergrass. He has lived through the worst of times as well as the best of times and this phenomenal story tells it all. |
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Chicago Tribune-
Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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| The Last Days of Judas Iscariot |
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| The Gift Theatre |
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| Jesus' infamous betrayer is on trial in Hope, a small section of Purgatory, in this wild, brilliant and beautiful farce in which Satan takes the stand and everyone's to blame. |
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Daily Herald-
Highly Recommended
Time Out Chicago-
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Somewhat Recommended
NewCity Chicago-
Highly Recommended
Windy City Times-
Highly Recommended
Chicago Free Press-
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Gay Chicago Magazine-
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ChicagoCritic-
Highly Recommended
Steadstyle Chicago-
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| Four Places |
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| Victory Gardens Theater - Biograph |
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| Peggy's usual lunch date (and usual lunch drink) with her middle aged
children turns from routine conversation to life changing revelation. Peggy,
alternately sweet and acerbic, skillfully maneuvers to keep control of her
waning power. Her two children must come to grips with the fact that
parents, at any age, have lives which may be very independent of their
children's. Johnson creates indelible characters; outrageously funny and
painfully human. His recent Before My Eyes and End of the Tour here at
Victory Gardens as well as A Fall to Earth and A Blameless Life at
Steppenwolf walk the line exquisitely between comedy and drama. |
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Chicago Tribune-
Highly Recommended
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Somewhat Recommended
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Highly Recommended
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Chicago Free Press-
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Copley News Service-
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