774 stories by "HEDY WEISS"
Bobby Hull, the Canadian-bred ice hockey great, has been in the sports spotlight since he was a teenager. But now, as he approaches his 72nd birthday, he is planning for his moment under the…
Hedy Weiss: You can think about "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's desperation-fueled, ofteninfantile new play at the Steppenwolf Theatre, in any number of ways. Though it might...
Will the most genuinely gifted of the two young writers in Itamar Moses' play "The Four of Us" please stand up?
New revelations come with each successive viewing of Julie Taymor's gloriously culture-blending 1997 musical "The Lion King." The seamless magic of its multifaceted, cross-pollinating artist…
Director Mary Zimmerman smiles as she recalls the retreat she conducted with her creative team for “Candide,” the Leonard Bernstein musical she has adapted a...
Note to David Mamet: Get yourself on a plane "home" to Chicago to catch two of your shorter, most fiercely provocative plays -- "Speed-the-Plow" (1988) and "...
There is something about the plays of Tennessee Williams -- and the sensation hits at gale force with exposure to any of his great works -- that leaves audiences wh...
Talk about extended verbal foreplay. It took almost 50 years for playwright Edward Albee's career-making one-act, "The Zoo Story," to acquire its intriguing ...
The Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has found its new artistic director. Heis Timothy Douglas, a 49-year-old stage director, actor and educatorwith extensive credits in both the classics and con…
Laughter may very well be the greatest gift one person can give to another. So let's just agree that Oscar Wilde remains a theatrical SantaClaus in a cl...
In recent decades, dancers have melded their own particular technicaland artistic demands with the daring and endurance levels ofsuper-powered athletes. Nowhere is that more apparent than in…
A sassy little "newsboy" zooms onstage on a scooter, acknowledges the crowd with a friendly "How y'all doin'?" and then proceeds to let everyone know how things are...
The Mercury Theater, the attractive little 315-seat house at 3745 N. Southport that has been vacant for many months — but formerly served as home to such intimate commercial production…
Will the most genuinely gifted of the two young writers in Itamar Moses' play "The Four of Us" please stand up?
Last year at this time, I wrote about an exhibition of the paintings of Mira Hermoni-Levine, an Israeli artist whose work (which I first discovered on the cover of a Playbill) is regularly e…
Broadway giant hits the target at Ravinia
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. 2-5.
In a program note about her new theater piece, "Lullaby," writerDiane Herrera explains that she was expecting a baby at the same timeher play was in gestation. Full...
Michael Halberstam, artistic director of Glencoe's acclaimed Writers' Theatre -- who has just staged a beguiling revival of the musical "She Loves Me," and who is heading to the Lincoln Cent…
Stage 773 is about toundergo a $1 million upgrade that will enhance both its facade andinterior spaces.
At the heart of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters," now in an uneven production at the Piven Theatre Workshop, is a group of sophisticated, "overeducated," once-prosperous siblings -- the three s…
Hedy Weiss: Paul Mullin's "Louis Slotin Sonata," now in its Midwest premiere at A Red Orchid Theatre, is an exceedingly ambitious, frequently flawed play about everythi...
"Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra," a new show by "Stomp" creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, will play Oct. 12-17 at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe.
The four British lads at the center of “DeparÂture Lounge,” DouglasIrvine's playful yet wistful little 90-minute coming-of-age musical —that was discovered at the 2...
Think of "Thieves Like Us," now in an exceptionally stylish world premiere stage production by the House Theatre of Chicago, as a more subtle version of "Bon...
