774 stories by "Hedy Weiss"
Chicago's Fall 2015 dance card is full of audacious programming, with opportunities to see great performances extending well beyond the usual concert venues of the Auditorium and Harris Thea…
Think of them as the contemporary Chicago version of Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, that ...
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The label "rock opera" has been appended to many shows in recent decades, but not until now, as The Hypocrites power their way into the amped up soul of "American Idiot," Green Day's punk ro…
Christopher Gattelli to choreograph new "SpongeBob Musical" set for a Chicago tryout.
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The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has announced its five-show 2016 season with a sixth special "riskier" choice to kick things off in January.
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With about 200 companies now in operation in this city, no list of 10 shows can possibly suggest the range of work headed to stages here in the next few months. So what follows is only a sm…
Think of N. Richard Nash's 1954 hit Broadway play "The Rainmaker" (which was quickly turned into the musical "110 in the Shade") as a companion piece to "The Music Man," and you won't be far…
I have a huge conundrum when it comes to “Peter and the Starcatcher,” the play ...
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It could have been a whole lot worse. There were no casualties. But less than a week after a three-alarm fire that began in the Adobe Grill restaurant - and resulted in the destruction of pa…
Back in 1987 I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author who died Sunday at the age of 82. Here, in remembrance, is a reprint of my story in which he dis…
Yes, it's true. SpongeBob, the high energy, high-spirited sea sponge who lives in a sea pineapple, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a pet snail, Gary, who meows like a…
First things first. It is time to declare actor Mike Nussbaum the Eight Wonder of the World. Watch the 91-year-old actor as he moves through TimeLine Theatre's gripping revival of "The Price…
"October Sky," the world premiere musical that rocketed straight into the hearts of Wednesday's opening night audience at the Marriott Theatre, tells a story that is familiar in many ways. L…
The Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., a long-lived, emblematic Off Loop company that thrived on a spirit of experimentation, provocation and the hippie ethos of its longtime artistic director, Richa…
She is, without question, a piece of work - the kind of woman who should wear a "Danger" sign around her neck. And in moving her from Victorian era Sweden (where she was born in August Strin…
Timeline Theatre, newly teamed with top bidder Svigos Development, named top choice for redevelopment of Andersonville area's Trumbull School.
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Pegasus Theatre Chicago has announced that it will open its 2015 – 2016 season with ...
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Chicago Dramatists has officially named Meghan Beals as its new artistic director. Beals had been ...
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Haven't been able to make it to London to see that guy named Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet? Or to Broadway to see Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience"? Despair not. This F…
Scan the list of the season's just announced Jeff Awards Equity nominations - honoring excellence in productions that opened between Aug. 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015 - and there can be only on…
Sex, race, social class, political activism, the changing roles of women and the issue of abortion. This might sound like a bucket list of contemporary themes. But in "Dirty Dancing - The Cl…
Thodos Dance Chicago has enjoyed formidable local and national success with two recent full-length “dance ...
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Years before the U.S. put a man on the moon for the first time, and ...
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The 9th annual Chicago Dancing Festival is shining a special spotlight on "Modern Women" as part of its week-long programming at three Chicago venues.
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Hershey Felder, that master of all theatrical trades (actor, director, pianist, composer, writer, designer, producer), ...
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