774 stories by "HEDY WEISS"
Eric Eatherly, vice president of the Silverman Group, one of Chicago’s leading public relations firms ...
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Dance companies are notoriously difficult to start, nurture and maintain. And few new contemporary troupes debut at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, and do so with the immense style, …
The conventions of live musical theater and grand-scale movies are very different, and what audiences can accept in one form can sometimes seem ridiculous in the other.
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One of the most intriguing trends during Chicago’s 2014 dance season was a renewed focus ...
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This has been a year of impressive artistic productivity, as well as a time of ...
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"First Date," the little musical based around the concept of a blind date, is headed to Chicago, beginning previews Feb. 5 at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted.
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With its world premiere of "Airline Highway," Lisa D'Amour's Broadway-bound play with a post-Katrina, Big Easy backdrop, Steppenwolf Theatre appears to be channeling its early golden days of…
"Newsies," which opened Friday at the Oriental Theater in an altogether phenomenal national touring edition " one that in many ways outshines the Broadway original " is a musical about how t…
The great irony of "Twist Your Dickens, or Scrooge You!," The Second City's parody now playing on the Goodman Theatre's Owen stage (just across the lobby from the Goodman's long-established …
A serious gathering of musical theater talent is being brought together for Porchlight Music Theatre's Chicago premiere of "Sondheim on Sondheim." The revue, conceived by James Lapine, featu…
In the wake of "The Art of Falling," its groundbreaking collaboration with The Second City, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has returned to pure dance mode.
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"Pericles," one of the Bard's less frequently produced "romances," is now receiving an elaborate production that might have benefited from some judicious trimming.
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With its latest project, "The 48-Hour Musicals: Encore," The Music Theatre Company, Highland Park's enterprising operation devoted to "the commissioning of new works and musical experiments,…
Sara Ruhl's exquisite play, "The Clean House" is a perfect illustration of her philosophy of lightness, yet it is profound beyond all expectations.
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Pegasus Theatre Chicago will be staging its 28th annual Young Playwrights Festival in a new location. This showcase of professional productions of one-act plays penned by four emerging young…
"Newsies," the Disney Theatrical Productions stage musical based on the 1992 film of the same name, takes audiences back to a pivotal moment in newspaper boy history as it recounts the famou…
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, the gifted Spanish-bred choreographer who served from 2009-2013 as the highly innovative ...
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Great news for Maybe April, the all-female, Nashville-based, country music trio that has played at Martyr's in Chicago and includes 19-year-old Alaina Stacey, the Chicago-bred singer-songwri…
Another Bette Midler movie is about to become a musical set for a pre-Broadway engagement in Chicago.
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The audience that packed the Auditorium Theatre for Friday's opening night performance of 'The Nutcracker" was a testament to the enduring charms of this dance-and-spectacle-filled classic t…
The Second City is in high drive at the moment with an exceptionally fine new mainstage revue, "Panic on Cloud 9," easily its best show in a long time. The show taps into a long list of elem…
I am not in the habit of reviewing the audience. But when a director can turn a crowd of about 200 mostly young, trendily dressed Wicker Park types into the happily participatory members at …
The Black Ensemble Theater has titled its 2015 season “Stir Up the Pot,” and it ...
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With four or five hit songs plucked from their Motown past combined with 16 or 17 new songs penned specially for "First Wives Club," their first Broadway musical, the fabled team of Holland-…
Steppenwolf Theatre will honor actress Laurie Metcalf, one of its founding members, at its annual ...
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