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Lives cut short by Irene Hsiao

Drumbeats pierce the air with discomfiting bluntness, a beeline for the ear soothed into tranquility with music performed by Fred Jackson Jr., Evan Hill, and Chér Jey. Three masked figures …

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:56pm on July 24, 2024

The waves of history by Irene Hsiao

The ocean is an obsession for 18-year-old Dontrell Jones III (Blake Dupree) of Baltimore, a high school graduate mere weeks from starting his full ride to Johns Hopkins, with the vastness of…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 2:27pm on July 18, 2024

Unruly corpses by Irene Hsiao

Antigonick, Anne Carson's 2012 translation of Sophokles's Antigone, is both heavy and light, with terse language hand-lettered in black and red caps, interleaved with illustrations by Bianca…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 1:16pm on June 12, 2024

Power and passion by Irene Hsiao

The overture begins with soft and almost wistful strings creating an atmosphere of tentative beauty, like a mist entering as the sun rises"a subtle, dark, and pensive beginning to an opera n…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 5:03pm on March 12, 2024

A box of treasures by Irene Hsiao

The view is sumptuous even before the curtain rises on Mary Zimmerman's The Matchbox Magic Flute: chandeliers dripping with gems, stars on a painted firmament, a cascade of crimson velvet, m…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 3:08pm on February 21, 2024

Asian American renegades by Irene Hsiao

When you hear "Charlie Chan," do you think of a Honolulu police detective with a penchant for fortune cookie proverbs in pidgin English, who was made into an American icon in six novels by O…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:54am on June 8, 2023

The three faces of Joan by Irene Hsiao

Joan of Arc: history or apocrypha, saint or schizophrenic, myth or martyr? We're all mad here, suggests Trap Door Theatre's vivacious U.S. premiere production of Matei ViÅŸniec's Joan and …

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 1:57pm on March 15, 2023

A universe of privation by Irene Hsiao

No wings close the expanse of earth that widens the Court Theatre stage to a landscape in Caryl Churchill's Fen, directed by Vanessa Stalling, with scenic design by Collette Pollard. The ter…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 4:37pm on February 21, 2023

Toxic claustrophobia by Irene Hsiao

Jasmine Sharma's Radial Gradient, directed in its world premiere at Shattered Globe Theatre by Grace Dolezal-Ng, is the story of two students and their bid to enter a sorority at their unive…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 9:39am on February 2, 2023

Practical holiday magic by Irene Hsiao

Uncle Joe was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The cardboard boxes littered the floor, filled with Joe's tools, Joe's college textbooks, Joe's albums and […] T…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 5:06pm on December 6, 2022

High-rise havoc by Irene Hsiao

On the rooftop of a high-rise, one of many in the forest of silhouettes that comprises our city's skyline, a professor (Dan Hanrahan) and an automotive engineer (Juanjo López) have […] …

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:49am on September 22, 2022

Tools for new movement by Irene Hsiao

On September 24, Toolbox @ Twenty opens at the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) to celebrate the Seldoms' 20th anniversary with an exhibition and performances in a large-scale experiment in […]…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 3:08pm on September 15, 2022

The play about the baby by Irene Hsiao

In March 2020, Theatre L'Acadie opened a production of Tennessee Williams's The Two Character Play the same week the city locked down for the COVID-19 pandemic: sibling actors, mad and […]…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:51am on August 24, 2022

Dimming of the day by Irene Hsiao

"When people die, they move from the first person to the third person. They also move from the present tense to the past tense." These words are spoken by Christine (Kendra Thulin), who open…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:48am on July 13, 2022

Native tongues by Irene Hsiao

The grounds are defined by meandering turns of grass and dirt, a rainfall of lightbulbs, a shining blue curve that sometimes picks up projections and reflections of what might be ghosts or c…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 9:39am on June 30, 2022

Just skating by by Irene Hsiao

The year is 1994, and rock star Jacqueline Miller (Diana DeGarmo) is zigzagging the country on a tour. Her dishonest manager has absconded with her earnings, her deadbeat saxophonist boyfrie…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:08pm on June 8, 2022

Romance languages by Irene Hsiao

Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destru…

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 2:18pm on June 6, 2022

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THE SEASON

BROADWAY SEASON
Celebrity Autobiography @ Shubert Theatre
Preview: May 16, 2026 Opening: May 18, 2026 Closing: Jun 21, 2026
Paranormal Activity @ August Wilson Theatre
Preview: Aug 14, 2026 Opening: Aug 25, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2027
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Preview: Sep 08, 2026 Opening: Sep 28, 2026 Closing:
Other Desert Cities @ Hudson Theatre
Preview: Sep 29, 2026 Opening: Oct 18, 2026 Closing: Jan 17, 2027
860 @ Imperial Theatre
Preview: Oct 01, 2026 Opening: Oct 21, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2027
The Imaginary Invalid @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Sep 25, 2026 Opening: Oct 22, 2026 Closing:
A Few Good Men @ Vivian Beaumont Theater
Preview: Oct 08, 2026 Opening: Oct 29, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2026
Wanted @ James Earl Jones Theatre
Preview: Oct 15, 2026 Opening: Nov 08, 2026 Closing:
Here There Are Blueberries @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Preview: Nov 02, 2026 Opening: Nov 09, 2026 Closing:
Now You See Me Live @ Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Opening: Nov 11, 2026 Closing: Jan 03, 2027
Downstate @ Booth Theatre
Preview: Oct 17, 2026 Opening: Nov 15, 2026 Closing:
The Fantasticks @ Hayes Theater
Preview: Oct 22, 2026 Opening: Nov 16, 2026 Closing:
Much Ado About Nothing @ Winter Garden Theatre
Preview: Oct 31, 2026 Opening: Nov 19, 2026 Closing: Jan 10, 2027
Inter Alia @ Music Box Theatre
Preview: Nov 10, 2026 Opening: Dec 01, 2026 Closing: Feb 21, 2027
Galileo @ Shubert Theatre
Preview: Nov 10, 2026 Opening: Dec 06, 2026 Closing:
Awake and Sing! @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Preview: Dec 15, 2026 Opening: Jan 05, 2027 Closing: Mar 01, 2027
Dolly: A True Original Musical @ St. James Theatre
Preview: Dec 07, 2026 Opening: Jan 19, 2027 Closing:
Mix And Master @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Jan 06, 2027 Opening: Jan 27, 2027 Closing:
Three Days Of Rain
Preview: Feb 01, 2027 Opening: Feb 01, 2027 Closing: Feb 01, 2027
Small Mouth Sounds @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Preview: Feb 18, 2027 Opening: Mar 18, 2027 Closing:
Evita @ Winter Garden Theatre
Preview: Feb 27, 2027 Opening: Mar 25, 2027 Closing:
Warriors @ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Preview: Mar 01, 2027 Opening: Apr 01, 2027 Closing:
Gloria @ Hayes Theater
Preview: Mar 17, 2027 Opening: Apr 05, 2027 Closing:
Purple Rain @ Majestic Theatre
Preview: Mar 12, 2027 Opening: Apr 12, 2027 Closing:
The Sound of Music @ Vivian Beaumont Theater
Preview: Mar 23, 2027 Opening: Apr 13, 2027 Closing: Jul 23, 2027
Paddington The Musical @ Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Preview: Mar 30, 2027 Opening: Apr 18, 2027 Closing:
The Full Monty @ Todd Haimes Theatre
Preview: Apr 03, 2027 Opening: Apr 25, 2027 Closing:
TBA: Damn Yankees
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TBA: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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