Ron E. Rains
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    • The Tempest
    • Billy Elliot
    • The Onion's Film Standard
    • Juno
    • A Christmas Carol
    • We Grew Up Here
    • By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
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Billy Elliot
as Dad (Jack Elliot)
Drury Lane Theatre
April 10 - June 7, 2015
  • "But it's thanks most of all to the spectacular Ron E. Rains, who plays Billy's father and who is willing to bare his soul for the paying customers, that the all-new Oakbrook Terrace "Billy Elliot" truly is a triumph of Chicago-style revisionism."
                    - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

  • "...a true storm of a performance by Ron E. Rains..."
             - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

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​Juno

as Captain Jack Boyle
TimeLine Theatre
April 16- July 27, 2014



  • "There is a formidable array of talent in this show, including Ron Rains as Boyle... it's Rains' ebullient character who dominates here." 
                   - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
                   


  • "Ron Rains in a breakout turn of great panache."
                        - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times



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The Onion's Film Standard 
as 
Peter K. Rosenthal
www.theonion.com
June 2013 - Present


  • "...so incredibly good on the Onion, and it's just so reliably surprising every time you have a segment. The recent Sound Of Music bit just about killed me. Anyway. I don't know anyone who doesn't think you're amazing."
             - Robert Lopez, EGOT winner / songwriter
 
  • "The Onion’s spirit of crafty subversion is alive and well in a quieter corner of the site—its film criticism."
                    - Laura Bennet, New Republic

  • "The best actor in movies today is Peter K. Rosenthal."
                    - Peter Sagal, Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me

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A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit
Goodman Theatre
2007-2017



  • "...an appealingly off-beat take on Bob Cratchit from Ron Rains..."
                          - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

  • "Ron Rains as Bob Cratchit is a standout of comic gifts and subtle pathos. He seems to channel Rowan Atkinson’s ‘Mr. Bean’... a comic gem that gets a well-deserved hearty applause... There isn’t one maudlin misstep in his performance and he plays a pretty mean guitar as well."
                            - K.D. Hopkins, Chicago Theater Beat

  • "The actor who played Bob Cratchit, Ron Rains, made me laugh a lot... Cratchit surprised me, especially at the end, when you could sense a true friendship between Yando’s Scrooge and Rains’ Cratchit."
                           - E. Sullivan & J. Tanaka, Chicago Magazine


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  • "...a terrific social comedy, and the Goodman cast (and the show’s large team of designers), have done wonderful work."                          - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark
as Maximillian von Oster and Peter Rhys-Davies
Goodman Theatre
April 27 - June 2, 2013



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