Articles by Peggy Reineking

Starry Night in Evanston Review - What a Way to Retire!

The musical theater stars that shot out of Northwestern University came back to twinkle at the retirement of Dominic Missimi after 30 years on the faculty

Mike Daisey's The Last Cargo Cult Review - Stories par Excellence

Mike Daisey bills himself as a storyteller. That is an oversimplification. He’s like a combination of Garrison Keillor and Michael Moore with an occasional appearance by the late Sam Kinison

A Play is Born - Watch for It

This is the story of a gestating play. It’s not born yet, but it will be soon. One day you may see it performed. You can say, “I knew it when…”

The Lakeside Singers Review - Making Singers of Us All

The twenty-four Lakeside Singers are hugely talented and disciplined musicians, but they are also irreverent and a tremendous amount of fun. Their concerts will leave you impressed and completely entertained

The True History of the Johnstown Flood Review - A Flood of Sensations at the Goodman

In this world premiere theatrical performance, playwright Rebecca Gilman shows us America in 1889 in the context of a man-made disaster that fascinated the world, the failure of a dam that destroyed a town

The Who's Tommy Review - It Rocks at Northwestern University

Possibly the world's most famous rock opera, The Who's Tommy, rocks again at Northwestern University

Blue Door Review - Excellent for Black History Month

Blue Door, a play nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, is now playing at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater. It portrays the night a Black man with achievements in a white society confronts the family legacy that brought him to his place