Broadway WorldMetropolis Presents Virtual Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
The play's afoot! The award-winning comedic mastermind Ken Ludwig transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Equal parts comedy and thriller, the world's favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, is on the case. The heirs of the Baskerville line are being eliminated one by one.
Northwest HeraldReview: Noises Off
Regina Belt-Daniels of the Northwest Herald Review: I’m setting the bar pretty high here for future performances, but darn it!, I can’t find a single thing wrong with the Metropolis production of “Noises Off.” There’s not a weak link anywhere. The timing, the pacing, that cast, line delivery, costumes, sound, lights and the set are all extraordinary.
Travolta NetMetropolis ‘Noises Off’ is a Lesson in Hilarity
First published on The Life and Times of Rikki Lee Travolta: Noises Off by playwright Michael Frayn is arguably the funniest stage farce to date. Under the skillful direction of Joe Lehman, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre staging goes to great lengths to prove this true.
Hilarity ensues onstage and backstage at Metropolis in the classic farce Noises Off
Enjoy a glimpse backstage with the comedy that has been hailed as the funniest farce ever written. A production plummeting off the rails takes center stage in this boisterous play-within-a-play. Following a traveling troupe’s production of the British comedy, Nothing On, from a tense dress rehearsal to a chaotic opening night and finally to a calamitous performance. The actors’ personal lives, ego battles and passionate affairs plunge the production toward the edge of complete disaster.
Metropolis ‘Anything Goes’ a Delightful Musical Comedy Voyage
First published on The Life and Times of Rikki Lee Travolta: Anything Goes, written in 1934 and featuring the work of composer Cole Porter, may be a cookie cutter musical comedy, but the brilliant staging at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in downtown Arlington Heights is anything but routine.
Metropolis goes for everything in resplendent production of classic ‘Anything Goes’
Chicago Musical Theatre Review by Erin Fleming: The cast dives in joyfully, fully committing to the vintage camp and stylistic tropes of the piece, many of them going for broke with highly entertaining, over-the-top comic performances, such as scene stealers Mark Ponatrelli and Maddie Dorsey as Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin and sassy moll Erma Latour, and Connor Murray as the Lord Evelyn Oakley.
NW Herald Review – ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’
The final production in the Metropolis 2018-19 Main Stage Series, “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” is a magnificent blockbuster. Director Joe Keene has assembled a spirited, vibrant ensemble of 20 who leap, dance, twist and shout across an authentic period set designed by Eric Luchen.