Current shows we think are hot, or soon-to-opens shows that should be!
Babes With Blades: The Music Videos, Storefront Theatre, through June 15. Half-time at the big game, and the marching band’s color guards are jousting with their flags to Sousa’s ‘Stars And Stripes Forever’. Songs by Segovia, Salt ‘N Peppa and Nine Inch Nails also inspire violence by this all-female stage combat troupe. (Barnidge)
Elaine Stritch At Liberty, Shubert Theatre, June 10-15. A Broadway and West End musical comedy legend, ‘Stritchie’ shares stories and fog-horn voiced songs of working and drinking with Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince and more. Call (312) 902-1400. (Abarbanel)
Ragtime, Light Opera Works at Cahn Auditorium, Evanston, June 6-15. A rich musical about the haves and have-nots in 1912 America. Can Light Opera Works pull off a scaled-down version of this enormous Broadway version of E. L. Doctorow’s novel? (Abarbanel)