Emily Berman first became interested in theater after following a friend to an audition. “She was auditioning for children’s theater plays and I was like, ‘I want to do that,’” Berman says. “When we both got cast, it just became one of my favorite things to do.” Today, the New Trier grad is starring in […]
Porchlight Music Theatre designates its current staging of Rogers and Hammerstein’s classic, “The King and I,” “an intimate version of the grand love story.” Add “elegant” and “creative” to the playbill. Director L. Walter Stearns’ final Porchlight production as artistic director delivers its promised intimacy at Stage 773’s North Theatre, which seats less than 200. […]
Stephen Sondheim unites mothers, music and art in a controversial classic. While running over two hours and fifteen minutes (with intermission) and featuring dangerously eclectic song structures among its more traditional musical numbers, Porchlight Music Theatre’s pastel sparked production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize winning Sunday in the Park with George (inspired by French painter […]
