Whether you’re waiting anxiously to see Timothée Chalamet in Wonka (the musical prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), or are rolling your eyes in anticipatory disgust (look, after the 2005 Johnny Depp cinematic debacle, I don’t blame you for being anxious!), Paramount Theatre’s current staging of the 2013 musical Charlie and the […]
Tag: David Greig
Mystery in space
Based on the 1961 novel by Stanisław Lem, which spawned two films, Solaris, the play by David Greig, makes its North American premiere in a Griffin Theatre production under Scott Weinstein’s direction. A riveting sci-fi mystery thriller, it opens with a scientist visiting a space station that orbits the ocean planet of Solaris. A crew […]
Midsummer (A Play With Songs) takes us on a wild tour of Edinburgh
Love, music, and a little bit of crime add up to a madcap midlife caper in David Greig’s comedy.
The king is dead—but Lady Macbeth is alive and vibrating with power in Dunsinane
The National Theatre of Scotland returns with Dunsinane, David Greig’s imagined sequel to the Scottish play.
The Strange (also engaging, affecting, and very funny) Undoing of Prudencia Hart
The National Theatre of Scotland performs The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at Chicago Shakespeare Theater