As  many of the wonderful reviews of Sideshow’s Idomeneus have pointed out, there’s a distinctly musical quality to the way the language in Sideshow’s production is delivered. It’s not the first time the King of Crete has had his story set to music. The original Homeric epics– such as the Iliad in which Idomeneus plays his [...]

Nobody’s quite sure what happened to Idomeneus, the title character of Sideshow’s next production, which goes into previews this week. And that uncertainty is part of what makes it such a fascinating show to watch. As director Jonathan L. Green says in this week’s TimeOut Chicago preview article: “It takes probably four or five different [...]