774 stories by "HEDY WEISS"
In many ways, Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is the most eloquent story ever written about American justice (and injustice). But it is about...
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 sp…
With her altogether spectacÂular and eye-opening production of “Cats,” now at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, director-choreographer Brenda Didier has ...
Unless they are in their teens, you might want to consider leaving the kids at home for this year's edition of “A Christmas Carol” at the Goodman Theatre. veteran director Willia…
After 34 years of dreaming, eight years of planning and four years of an intensive $16 million fund-raising campaign that coincided with a profoundly trouble...
It begins like any other day for Joseph K., even if it does happen to be his 30th birthday. Of course, those familiar with The Trial, one of Franz Kafka'sseminal no...
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 ex...
Union musicians in Chicago are playing hardball with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, putting in jeopardy a much-anticipated Chicago premiere of choreographer Mark Morris' new work "R…
One excellent way to pay homage to this country's soldiers on Veteran's Day is to catch the single reprise performance of Griffin Theatre's immensely moving show, “Letters Home,”…
Chicago's Latin-oriented Luna Negra Dance Theater made a bold and inspired move last year when it appointed Gustavo Ramirez Sansano as artistic director and ...
The verdict is unequivocal: In "All Stars," its magnificent fall program at the Auditorium Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet (expertly accompanied by the Chicago Sinfonietta) is dancing as it has …
From the look and sound of it all -- and be advised that it is drenched in fake blood, genuine sweat, ear-piercing screechiness, heavily bruising physicality and an...
Watching the formidable dancers of the River North Chicago Dance Company perform to a packed house at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Saturday night, I fo...
Set in a grimy, mouse-infested Brooklyn auto parts warehouse in the late 1930s -- as the Great Depression lingers and Hitler is rising to power in Germany ...
The enterprising 16th Street Theatre, housed in the Berwyn Cultural Center at 6420 16th St., has announced its 2011 season. Dubbed "A Season of Change," it will include: "The Beats" (Jan. 13…
Sutton Foster doesn't quite suggest the usual Broadway diva. But watch her at work on the newly named Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, and you not only understand why she was selecte…
Playwright Julia Cho, the first-generation daughter of Korean immigrants, took extensive piano lessons from a variety of teachers in her youth. She wishes she had kept up with her musical tr…
Hedy Weiss: Sheer, unadulterated bliss. There is no other way to describe the enchanting Writers' Theatre revival of "She Loves Me" -- that priceless little jewel-box of a musical comedy that so win...
Broadway and film veteran Ann Reinking will collaborate with Chicago-based choreographer Melissa Thodos to create “The White City: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893,” a…
Playwright Paula Vogel grew up in Washington, D.C., and she has made that place the backdrop for “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” her epic holiday show t…
Though the basic vocabulary of dance is universal, rooted in ballet,modern, jazz and popular dance, each choreographer's tone, accent,inflection, volume and diction...
When I caught up with writer-producer Toby Gough recently, he was about to jump into a swimming pool in Singapore, where he was producing a big Brazilian-themed spe...
In recent months, as he has been working on his new production ofChekhov's “The Seagull” at the Goodman Theatre, director Robert Falls has been thinking about how his relationshi…
"Night and Day," Tom Stoppard's intellectually bristling and surprisingly passionate play about journalism, post-colonial Africa, labor unions and sexual attraction...
Note to all young women seeking a permanent relationship with a man willing to commit: Steer clear of Bobby, that ever-elusive single guy who is about to celebrate ...
