Jessie Bond

Now and Then Review – Great Music Carries Uninspired Story

July 22, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

One should not ruin a perfectly good country album by building a bad musical around it. Let’s back up. Now and Then is a new musical playing at Pride Arts Center, produced by Now & […]

Head Over Heels Review – An Absolute Treat

July 15, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

Head Over Heels is a queer reimagining of Sir Phillip Sidney’s 16th century text The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia set to the music of the hit eighties rock band The Go-Gos. On paper, it makes […]

Grace, or the Art of Climbing Review – Depression Takes Center Stage

June 17, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

My longest-held job to date was at an indoor climbing wall in my hometown, where I worked on and off through high school and college and for a few years after graduation. I never felt […]

A Winter’s Tale at the Goodman Theatre Review – An Obscure Delight

May 31, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

If you go see A Winter’s Tale once in your life (and that may be all you need), see it in its current iteration at the Goodman. […]

A Chorus Line Review – A Fresh Take on a Beloved Classic

April 24, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

Porchlight Music Theatre presents American music theatre staple A Chorus Line, directed by Brenda Didier. This classic musical tells the story of seventeen dancers auditioning to be in the chorus of an upcoming show. A […]

Lottery Day Review – Rightlynd’s Grand Finale

April 11, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

All your favorite characters from the previous six installments are coming together for an epic, high-stakes, emotionally fraught conclusion this April. You might be thinking of Game of Thrones, but this also describes Lottery Day, […]

Small World Review – A World of Laughter, A World of Tears

April 7, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

There are possibly no two events less alike than the apocalypse and a day at Disney. Yet these are the two events playwrights Jillian Leff and Joe Lino juxtapose in their play Small World, currently […]

Sweat at Goodman Theatre Review – Brilliant but Familiar

March 21, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

Did you know that technology and globalization are changing the American economy, especially for blue-collar workers? I know. Let that one sink in for a moment. Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat, which is currently […]

Dessa at Old Town School of Folk Music Review – A Powerful Performance

March 10, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

After opening act Monakr finished their set at Old Town School of Folk Music on February 21st, singer Matthew Santos asked the audience “are you ready for Dessa?” We responded with the universal wordless yell […]

MadKap Productions’ Bonnie and Clyde Review – Bonnie is Spectacular. The Rest? Fine.

February 17, 2019 Jessie Bond 0

After seeing Frank Wildhorn and Don Black’s musical Bonnie and Clyde at Kokandy Productions a year and a half ago, I’ve become rather unapologetically obsessed with the music from the show, playing the original Broadway […]