214 stories by "Irene Hsiao"
His first solo U.S. museum show explores optimism as characterized by the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
"Little one, I have dreams to sell," begins one of a parcel …
Gregory Jaco's Tornado School of Martial Arts comes alive in a new dance performance developed through the Rebuild Foundation.
"To this school . . . we bring our…
A spinal injury led Joanna Furnans to an autobiographical solo dance exploring the minute.
Minute movement. Mundane moments.…
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre's world premiere shows the struggles of Black women in classical dance.
Ballet dancers applauded last October when Freed of London beg…
Alistair McDowall's thriller at Steep plants seeds of money, violence, sex, death . . . and Dungeons and Dragons.
A woman's search for her missing sister becomes…
Windy City Playhouse's latest immersive ambulatory production offers a penetrating analysis of class privilege.
Two college guys, unlike in privilege, in Provide…
Cloudgate Theatre's production is too precious and preposterous.
Atmosphere is everything in Cloudgate Theatre artistic director Kristin Idaszak's new Strange He…
This production of Shakespeare's patriarchal anxiety dream finds truth in jest.
It is sleek, sharp, and cool.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Summer Series performed at the Harris Theater June 6 through 9 was a sleek and futuristic vision: t…
Adult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch.
It's their weekly lunch date. They're sitting in the restaurant where she an…
Choreographer Emma Draves and three dancers bring an elegant simplicity to their Dovetail Studios performance.
The audience sits along two walls in Studio 1 at …
But at least "Exit, pursued by a bear" finally makes sense.
Now still being the winter of our discontent, it feels unwarranted for the Goodman Theatre to run its…
This is the fourth adaptation this year, if you're still keeping track.
"It was on a dreary night in November," intones teenage Mary Shelley, thrusting a candela…
Eifman Ballet views the transformation through the lens of dance.
Eifman Ballet returns to the Auditorium May 17-19 for the North American premiere of artistic d…
Of the several potentially fruitful directions for a play about a generic grown-up teen detective to take, this world premiere is not one of them.
The new play by Leonard House takes viewers inside a south side bar in 1972.
It's 1972 and Haskins' bar has been a fixture on the south side of Chicago for 30 ye…
Directed by Barbara Gaines, CST's production meets but does not exceed expectations.
This production's all-female cast succeeds in focusing a play often seen through the lens of race quite pointedly upon gender.
"He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger."
He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity that …
The cast brings the group of dance hopefuls to life.
On a bare stage, a sea of spandex roils, shining with that 1970s luster. A director calls out counts and ste…
Race is just a trading card.
Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
It's as pretty as a pastry.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be …
It's been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named for…
Beyond the window, the show is happening.
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
