774 stories by "Hedy Weiss"
Cameras will be rolling when the Chicago star of Porchlight's "End of the Rainbow" performs next month in St. Charles.
It's goofy escapist entertainment of the highest order.
By now, the meteoric Broadway career of Chicago-bred actress Jessie Mueller is a well-known story, with a Tony Award win for her starring role in “Beautiful " The Carole King Musical,&…
Jeanine Tesori is the Tony Award-winning composer responsible for such shows as “Caroline, or Change,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Violet,” “Thoroughly Mo…
The Drury Lane Theatre in Oak Brook Terrace — which racked up an impressive 19 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations last week for its productions of the past season — has today ann…
The play, directed by Damon Kiely, is now receiving a ferociously acted Chicago premiere by Strawdog Theatre.
It is the latest addition to the more than 40 murals in the South Loop neighborhood, and kicks off this year's public art exhibition, Street Level.
Make way for Martha Lavey Way. A section of North Halsted Street where Steppenwolf stands will be renamed in the artistic director's honor.
The new lottery system begins Aug. 27.
TimeLine Theatre's superb Chicago premiere of "The Audience," Peter Morgan's whip-smart portrait of a Queen Elizabeth, is not to be missed.
The winners will be a announced at a gala awards ceremony Nov. 6 at the Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace.
Mary Robin Roth's Rose is a tireless force of nature in this production that reinforces the ruthless and bitter aspects of the burlesque star's story.
The Oscar-winning short film has been expanded into a fervent, surprisingly playful, fully musicalized two-hour show.
The 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell was in many ways far ahead of its time in both style and substance,
WEISS: As sick and twisted as the Black Button Eyes production is, its depiction of domestic horror is so imaginative that you cannot look away.
Neither Alexander Hamilton, nor any of such scientifically-minded Founding Fathers as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, had an app, although they certainly had “appetites.”…
Gaines' re-imagined production, with Shakespeare's script featuring additional dialogue by Second City's Ron West, is set in 1919 Chicago.
The festival will run Sept. 29 through Oct. 29 at various venues.
The musical is based on the 1994 Oscar-winning short film.
WEISS: Mercury Theater Chicago production is at once grand-scale yet intimate, aiming to capture the fashion, attitudes and anxieties of the era.
WEISS: The reality TV takeoff also delves into backstage drama, a variety of musical styles and even contemporary politics.
Since its publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s novel, ‘The Wonderful of Wizard of Oz,” has been the source of countless iterations, from the magical 1939 MGM film, to the u…
The play's author, Thomas R. Geoghagen, pairs the Founding Father with Edgar Allan Poe as a way to examine Jefferson's contradictions.
Let’s just say that three Chicago actors – Alex Weisman, Jessie Fisher and James Romney – will probably be taking very long leases on New York apartments soon. And why is t…
Steppenwolf says the actress, who appeared in Chicago and on Broadway in "August: Osage County," was "at the center of who this company is."
