THREE TO SEE: This Week's Theater Recommendations
By Melody Udell in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 17, 2014 7:00PM
Kokandy Productions' Sweet Smell of Success at Theater Wit.
A few diverse dramas hit the stage this week: a refreshed classic, a gripping psycho-social drama and a juicy, old-school musical.
Despite the fact that Phantom isn’t a musical that needs fixing, the newly reimagined national tour has incorporated a few nips and tucks. But don’t worry, it still boasts all of the lavishness of the original mega-musical. The show runs through Sunday, March 2.
Broadway in Chicago, Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, 312-384-1502 or online.
Luna Gale
After her performance in The Normal Heart as a polio-stricken medical researcher in the early days of the AIDS crisis, we’ll see Mary Beth Fisher in anything. And her newest role at the Goodman seems a perfect fit—she’ll play a social worker who’s charged with two teenage, drug-addicted new parents. The show runs Saturday, Jan. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 23.
Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800 or online.
Kokandy Productions is staging an ambitious, energetic version of Sweet Smell of Success, one of Marvin Hamlisch’s lesser-known musicals about immoral gossip columnists and self-serving press agents in 1950s Manhattan. The show runs through Sunday, Feb. 2.
Kokandy Productions, Theatre Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave., 773-975-8150 or online.