214 stories by "Irene Hsiao"
Our critics suggest ten ways to fill out that slightly longer calendar this month.
Theater (Kerry Reid) Sophisticated Ladies…
Kimberly Bartosik/daela make their Chicago debut.
In 2017, when choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Kimberly Bartosik began working on I Hunger for …
The characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
Frank Lloyd Wright's recently restored "good-time place" provides a divine backdrop for Winifred Haun and Dancers.
No entrance greets the eye at the intersection…
Playwright C.A. Johnson's world of civil war, bombs, looting, gangs and starvation is hardly fictional. It is practically here.
Clare Barron's drama delivers flagrantly graceless dancing, but heartstopping truths.
The curtain never rises on Clare Barron's ferocious, Pulitzer-finalist play…
Break the hibernation habit with some hot choices onstage.
THEATER PICKS (KERRY REID) Whisper House…
The best moments in dance this year focused on the power of community.
In the mad scene in Akram Khan's Giselle for the English National Ballet at the Harris The…
The longtime Chicago dancer and labor lawyer turns Nutcracker revenues into new initiatives.
For most, the holidays mean food, family, festivities, and fits of r…
By the end of this melodious but ultimately vapid production you too might feel as if you've been kicked in the head.
Based in Australia, the company fuses contemporary dance with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions.
Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia makes its Chi…
A contemporary and timeless vision from the premiere source for classical Greek theater.
Tango 21 Dance Theater's cabaret show lacks narrative sophistication.
Originating on the streets of Argentina, filtered through European high society, blending A…
Lucky Plush's new ensemble piece uses the roller rink as a metaphor for community.
Ah, the roller rink"a community center where everyone keeps moving in circles,…
Directed by Mary Zimmerman, this ardent and wide-eyed holiday show returns, albeit with at least one noteworthy blind spot.
Rena Butler explores otherness and adaptation to new spaces in her contribution to Hubbard Street's Forge Forward program.
This week, Hubbard Street Dance Chicag…
The characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
The choreographer's duets about changing partners takes over the Art Institute's Trading Room.
On the northeasternmost edge of the Art Institute of Chicago, wher…
Both spoken and signed, this production plays its source material twice, spotlighting the disturbing ventriloquism of romantic relationships.
Khecari's new duet debuts at Links Hall.
Two women begin with motion that is rapid and unrelenting, fearlessly yielding to momentum, whirring limbs about the axi…
What's drugs got to do with it?
Shakespeare's villain goes flat in Eclectic Full Contact's production.
Shakespeare's Richard III is the embodiment of a man with a chip on his shoulder, a hunchb…
The company's fall series at the Athenaeum celebrates past work by artistic director Nick Pupillo and introduces a new piece by Spanish choreographer Monica Cervantes.
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At 20, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre celebrates immigrant, Native, and African American identity in two programs of new work.
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, founded …
Court Theatre continues to strengthen its reputation as the premiere destination for August Wilson work with this latest production.
