214 stories by "Irene Hsiao"
It's escapism you can feel good about.
In Thomas Nashe's novel The Unfortunate Traveller, the young servant-soldier Jack Wilton swashbuckles his way through the …
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
Go Team FatGay!
If the 30s are the new 20s, and the 20s are but an extended adolescence, then we may never have to grow up at all if we live long enough. Sam and…
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
This WorldStage Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater renders trauma, memory and youth in its own exquisite language.
Part of the International Puppet Festival, this "one person" show from Compagnie Non Nova disturbs as much as it delights.
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.
Closing out their William Inge season, this production from Eclipse Theatre Company walks the line between realism and melodrama with ease.
Promethean Theatre Ensemble's production of Tom Stoppard's ode to balancing reason and ardor is as welcome as ever.
AstonRep Theatre Company's production of this Martin McDonagh play is as lovely a thing as can be mustered from the playwright's relentlessly bleak vision of humanity.
If "DDR" brings to mind not "Dance Dance Revolution" but "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", The Artistic Home's production of this Tom Stoppard play is probably for you.
The Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play is an impressionistic journey through the history of a controversy.
City Lit's production of this early work by George Bernard Shaw remains brilliantly funny in our time of appalling displays of vanity and greed.
At Writers Theatre, playwright Qui Nguyen weaves a story that is uniquely Asian and indivisibly American.
Eclipse Theatre Company's William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.
Broken Nose Theatre's production of Sam Chanse's play captures the absurd melancholy of life in the sixth mass extinction.
Those who are gone ensure that they are not forgotten in the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's thriller at Haven Theatre.
John Strand's equivocating biographical play on Antonin Scalia, currently receiving its Chicago premiere at Court Theatre, unconvincingly pits the thirty-year Supreme Court Justice's entrenc…
This new translation of Aeschylus' play at City Lit Theater is as flat and lifeless as its cardboard puppets.
A feast for the eyes and ears, this production at Porchlight Music Theatre offers an encouraging parallel world.
This wrenching, rarely-performed drama from William Inge gets a stirring revival at Eclipse Theatre Company.
BoHo Theatre's production of Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play makes the transition from paper to performance with excessive fuss.
"Formosa" hovers between pure dance and historical exegesis, with movements that are pedestrian and formal and images that are deictic and metaphorical, …by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Tai…
