774 stories by "HEDY WEISS"
Imagine a Jerry Springer episode that featured a feud among the members of a highly educated, affluent, African American family, with a couple of visiting romantic partners, and the teenage …
"Once," which has returned to Chicago for an all too brief engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, weaves a spell around its audience in ways that are unlike those of any other Broadway m…
Art and history have a funny way of tripping each other up. Consider the case of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who are now the subjects of the new musical, "On Your Feet!" which is about to ope…
As a character in Regina Taylor's provocative play, "stop.reset." observes, we've already cloned sheep, so isn't some form of cloning of the human soul not far behind? The Goodman Theatre pr…
Theo Ubique, the cabaret theater in the Rogers Park neighborhood that, under the artistic direction of Fred Anzevino performs major miracles on its small storefront stage, has announced its …
Bonnie Metzgar has been named interim artistic of American Theater Company.
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Jackie Taylor, founder and artistic director of the Black Ensemble Theater (BET), is a woman with a longstanding, all-consuming mission. So when you ask her about the thinking behind BET's f…
The 1991 musical based on Francis Hodgson Burnett's 1911childrens novel - with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon - is a sophisticated beauty. And the Court Theatre rev…
The New York-based Shubert Foundation looks well past Broadway, giving support to theaters and other ...
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“The Drowning Girls,” a work by three female playwrights that reflects on the misconceptions of ...
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Chicago theaters keep upping the ante in their feverish goal to showcase new plays. The latest example is Victory Gardens Theater, which has long forged its identity on presenting new work, …
Steppenwolf Theatre has announced the lineup for its 10th annual First Look series, the program dedicated to new play development that will run in rotating repertory Aug. 11 " 16 in the Upst…
Sick, sicker, sickest. And doomed. That is the most accurate shorthand for describing the four troubled and twisted characters in "Our New Girl," the work of Dublin-bred, London-based playw…
During the past several decades "the Indian subcontinent" has changed dramatically, and a whole new artistic energy has emerged. It is this art - in many disciplines, and with all its links …
The first thing you notice about Laurie Metcalf is how incredibly buff she is. Not an ounce of fat on her petite frame. And not a hint of makeup on her face,...
Hedy Weiss: The sheer jaw-dropping intensity of the opening dance sequence in the galvanic revival of "A Chorus Line" at the Marriott Theatre might leave you wondering w...
Debate and argument are essential elements of Jewish life, whether undertaken in public settings or in the privacy of the home.
On the list of the greatest shows from the golden age of American musicals you invariably will find “Guys & Dolls,” “My Fair Lady,” “West Side Story” an...
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, is filling …
Graham Greene was very much a man of the 20th century — a writer with a broad perspective on the seductive and corrupting aspects of international politics, ...
With its 2010 Winter Pageant, Redmoon Theatre has devised a show that easily unites the generations — from geezers and boomers, to all those X,Y and Z types, to tho...
What more can possibly be said about Julia Child, that tall, gangly woman with the high-pitched voice who could so joyfully spank a chicken, and so unexpectedly send hordes of Americans hook…
“Scorched,” now in a tremendously bold and ambitious production by the Silk Road Theatre Project, is Wajdi Mouawad's searing meditation on the insanity of the civil war that rage…
With the ever more sinister-sounding Black Friday putting holiday shoppers in a state of high anxiety by Halloween, this might well be the ideal moment to bury your credit cards and avoid th…
"To Master the Art," the entirely delicious new play about Julia Child that opened this weekend at TimeLine Theatre, is a great appetite enhancer. It might even send the most fervent non-coo…
