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Friday, November 26, 2010

Hubbard Street’s powerful winter season on tap at Harris by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s four annual engagements at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance are brief but brilliant. So act quickly as the company makes its winter appearance, Dec. 2-…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

A ‘Cats’ that’s worth the scratch by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Hedy Weiss: With her altogether spectacular and eye-opening production of “Cats,” now at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, director-choreographer Brenda Didier has made me a convert…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

‘Civil War Christmas’ has fine cast but poor execution by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Hedy Weiss: There is a great deal of talent on the stage of Northlight Theatre now, where “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” Paula Vogel’s play with music, i…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Monday, November 22, 2010

History’s made personal in Court’s vividly acted ‘Home’ by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Hedy Weiss: Yes, you can go home again. And maybe you must. But before you return full circle to your roots, there is a long and torment-filled road to travel — one that will force you…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

New 'Peter Pan' to fly here by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

An elaborate new version of "Peter Pan" will be flying in from England this spring, courtesy of Broadway in Chicago and threesixty entertainment. First produced in the summer of 2009 in Kens…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:30AM

Red Orchid’s ‘Iliad’ makes bold statement about ferocity of war by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Granted, it might sound entirely counterintuitive to create a stage adaptation of “The Iliad” — Homer’s massive epic about the madness and horrors of war — that is specifically mea…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Friday, November 12, 2010

'Four of Us' explores creative process from personal standpoint by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Will the most genuinely gifted of the two young writers in Itamar Moses' play "The Four of Us" please stand up?

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

‘Piano Teacher’ hits all the right notes by <a Href="mailto:[email protected]">hedy Weiss</a> Theater Critic/[email protected]

Hedy Weiss: It would be wrong to describe Julia Cho’s eerily compelling play, “The Piano Teacher,” now in a superbly acted Chicago premiere at Evanston’s Next Theatre, as an expl…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM

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