774 stories by "Hedy Weiss"
American Theater Company (ATC) has scheduled a public memorial for its late artistic director, PJ Paparelli, who died in May from injuries due to a car accident in Scotland. It will be held …
As anyone familiar with the Black Ensemble Theater will tell you, there have been many moments when a performer has arrived on the company's stage bringing such an uncanny sense of the spiri…
The Gift Theatre may call home an unquestionably intimate storefront at 4802 N. Milwaukee in the city's Jefferson Park neighborhood. But the company has just announced big plans for its 15th…
"Grand Concourse" is Heidi Schreck's beautiful tragicomedy of life, love, faith, work, aspiration, failure, truth, lies, rebirth and that whole crazy stew we refer to as "humanity." And it i…
Chicago is something of a second home for the work of Stephen Sondheim, the genius of Broadway, now 85 and still at work. So "A Sondheim Celebration," part of this summer's Grant Park Music …
After seven seasons, The Music Theatre Company (TMTC), the Highland Park-based professional theater dedicated to ...
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They meet cute, as kids, in Atlantic City. The year is 1952. Cee Cee desperately craves an audience, and Bertie can only be dazzled by this child who is bursting with such talent and moxie. …
In Martin Sherman's "Bent," a play that became something of a "cause celebre" when it debuted in London in 1979 with Ian McKellen in its central role, it is the plight of those forced to we…
Talk about perfect timing. On the very day of President Obama’s formal announcement regarding the ...
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Cyndi Lauper came to the phone on the morning of June 26th, at the very moment that the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision making same-sex marriage a right nationwide. An…
It's back: The Hypocrites is now performing its revised remount of "All Our Tragic" - director Sean Graney's awe-inspiring 12-hour adaptation of all 32 of the surviving ancient Greek tragedi…
Is Anton Chekhov rolling over in his grave in the Moscow cemetery where he was buried in 1904, at the far too young age of 44? Or, having caught wind of Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Soni…
"Gotta Dance," the new Broadway-bound musical with a Chicago tryout this winter, has announced its cast.
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To what extent are the personalities and relationship histories of your parents indicators of your own trajectory in life? Is their behavior imitated, sometimes to disastrous effect? Or is i…
Chicago Tap Theater, founded in 2002 by dancer-choreographer Mark Yonally, can spin a story in a way few other dance or theater companies can match. Innovative, richly musical and character-…
Museums are no longer just about what hangs on the walls or rests in glass cases. Performance has become a major element in their programming, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has be…
Ayad Akhtar, the Milwaukee-bred writer of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Disgraced," a work about Muslim-American identity, is not an entirely subtle …
Lookingglass Theatre's world premiere production of "Moby Dick" is a triumph of grand theatrical imagination, deep thought, superb acting and the most ingeniously deployed physical daring. S…
"City of Angels" is a ferociously tricky musical to carry off - one that requires an A-list director and a large, virtuosic cast, all of whom possess the kind of immense intelligence and st…
In 2012, I reviewed “Jamaica Farewell” that played at Chicago’s Chopin Theatre. Here is part ...
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Without question, it's the rhythm that's gonna get you in "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan," the new Broadway-bound musical that spins the story of the early years of th…
The announcement on Tuesday that Abby Mueller would be playing the title role in the national touring production of the Broadway hit, "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" - following in the…
In what might be seen as a unique case of "sibling revelry," the producers of "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" have announced that Abby Mueller will headline the national tour of that h…
The Irish playwright Conor McPherson has spun any number of what might be dubbed existential ghost stories, including "The Weir," "Shining City" and "Port Authority." So it is not at all sur…
Impressive news from the Joffrey Ballet: The company has raised more than the required $1 million needed to meet the challenge grant of $500,000 it received from the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Fou…
