774 stories by "HEDY WEISS"
Steppenwolf Theatre's First Look Repertory of New Work project, now in its sixth season, dubs the new plays it showcases as "developmental productions." In fact, th...
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 exploration of t…
That cross-pollinated form of performance dubbed "dance theater" is as multifaceted as the companies who create and perform it. Just consider the work of two radically different New York-bas…
Although playwrights from Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams to Tracy Letts have created a booming industry based on the dynamics of dysfunctional America...
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…
The battle lines are set from the start in the thunderously physical, youthfully energetic production of "Romeo and Juliet" devised for Chicago Shakespeare T...
'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" was named top production of a play as well as best newwork of the 2009-10 Chicago theater season at Monday night's 42nd annua...
She may not be an altogether familiar name in Chicago, but for anyone who follows the Broadway scene, Sutton Foster is clearly the go-to gal. The terrific da...
There are times in the theater -- and Robert Falls' altogether splendid new interpretation of Chekhov's "The Seagull" is one of them -- when you almost believe the playwright is looking down…
Hedy Weiss: Give the audience a great old-fashioned musical and you just make everyone happy. That was the unanimous sentiment -- pronounced loudly, and with b...
Enter the lobby of the Broadway Playhouse, a 549-seat venue at 175 E. Chestnut that opened in 2005 under the name Drury Lane Water Tower Place Theatre, and you can only begin to wonder what …
The opening scene in Scott T. Barsotti's new play, "McMeekin Finds Out," is the one and only reason to bother catching this Route 66 Theatre Company production.
“Big Fish,” the musical based on Daniel Wallace’s 1998 book and popular 2003 film, arrived ...
The post Hooking the heart of “Big Fish,” a Broadway musical that…
Some directors hide on opening nights. Not PJ Paparelli, the artistic director of American Theater Company (ATC), who died Thursday, at the age of 40, in a car accident in Scotland. Earlier …
The "Conga" line led straight to the lobby of Oriental Theater on Tuesday morning as Emilio and Gloria Estefan greeted the press in preparation for the debut of their Broadway-bound musical…
During its 42nd season as one of Chicago's top presenters of contemporary dance, the Dance Center of Columbia College will showcase the Stephen Petronio Company paying homage to American pos…
Here are the stats: Between July 19 and Aug. 16, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST), in association with the City of Chicago, the Chicago Park District and Boeing ,will continue the annua…
“What would you save? ” That is the provocative question posed in the TimeLine Theatre ...
The post Salvaging pieces of civilization in “Inana” appeared first on Chic…
"Shining Lives: A Musical," the fervent yet poetic chamber work now receiving a fittingly radiant world premiere at Northlight Theatre, is, above all, a story of courage and determination in…
These days, if you have the money, you can sign up for a cruise to Antarctica that comes complete with luxury accommodations, scholarly lectures, island stops, penguin and whale-sightings, a…
On stage, and in the recording studio, they produced gorgeous harmonies, selling 175 million records. Off stage, dissonance was the rule. That tension between artistic blending and personal …
Based on a true story, "Shining Lives: A Musical," based on the Melanie Marnich play, tells of the young women who worked at the Radium Dial Company factory in Ottawa, Illinois, in the 1920s…
Dianne Wiest, the Academy Award-winning actress, will narrate the concert version of Debussy's opera, "Pelleas et Melisande," part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "French Reveries &…
The Goodman Theatre announced that it plans to establish the Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement. The $15 million expansion effort (of which more than $10 million has been …
A show more lip-smackingly delicious than biscuits and grits that comes smothered with a heaping side of evil.
That's what you get with the Goodman Theatre revival of "The Little Foxes," Lil…
