CHICAGO – Theatrical satires of the Star Wars Universe are like the number of TV series the universe has wrought … too many to figure out if anything is worthwhile. But “Trade Federation” (subtitled “Or Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels”), presented by Otherworld Theatre in Wrigleyville Chicago, gets it right on.
Stonewall Inn
Pride Week!: Highlights of ‘Reel Pride” with Pat & Jeffrey
Submitted by PatrickMcD on June 26, 2021 - 1:29pmCHICAGO – To wrap up HollywoodChicago.com’s coverage of Pride Week and Month, two highlight videos of ‘Reel Pride,” a show that centers of LGBTQIA+ films, co-hosted by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago and Jeffrey Leibham, an entertainment reporter in Chicago.
Film Review: Relative Redemption! On-Air Review of ‘Uncle Frank’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 5, 2020 - 10:55amCHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 3rd, 2020, reviewing the new film “Uncle Frank,” now streaming on Amazon Prime.
Theater Review: Passionate ‘Hit the Wall’ Feels Like Revolution
Submitted by PatrickMcD on May 9, 2014 - 12:59pmCHICAGO – There are few civil rights events shrouded in mystery like the Stonewall Inn Riots – a June night in 1969 in New York City, when gay liberation was born. Witnesses and participants in the riots have grown exponentially over the years (“I was there.”) and the who, what and how the riots began have also been in dispute as time goes by. All of that perspective is realized in Ike Holter’s incendiary stage play “Hit the Wall,” presented by the Chicago Commercial Collective at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago.
