774 stories by "Hedy Weiss"
When it comes time to write about the Spring dance season, the work of that ...
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The Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced grand-scale plans to spread its wings on Navy Pier.
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For poets, Spring means romance. For Chicago it means the opening of even more theater productions than usual - as difficult as that might be to fathom. Here is a list of some of the most in…
You really have to hand it to Steppenwolf Theatre. A year after its wholly misguided (if controversy-generating) Young Adults production of "This is Modern Art" the company has produced anot…
Audiences for a marketing event held last week at Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place had the chance to dive into a few choice moments from "The SpongeBob Musical," the new sho…
Gustav Mahler's "Third Symphony" clearly became an obsession for the Milwaukee-bred choreographer John Neumeier, who, for more than four decades, has served as artistic director of Germany's…
Just when you might be convinced that there is nothing more to be said or done with Shakespeare's mighty tragedy, "Othello" - whether as a play, a ballet, an opera or a film - along comes Br…
First things first: Each and every member of the Black Ensemble Theater revue, "Those Sensational Soulful '60s," not only lives up to the names and voices of the many fabled artists they cha…
Some musicals (the best kind in my judgment), make you lean in and embrace their characters, even if those characters are problematic people. Others are driven by proclamations, and the more…
Everything from Lin-Manuel Miranda to Stephen Sondheim to be part of Porchlight Music Theatre's 2016-17 season.
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The first conclusion you might reach after watching Lyric Opera's production of "Romeo and Juliet" - the 1867 opera by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carre base…
Now in its 5th season of self-producing an immensely successful Broadway musical series, Aurora's Paramount Theatre has announced the appointment of Chicago director Amber Mak - a fixture on…
Mark your calendar for noon this Saturday (Feb. 20) at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. That's when the Chicago premiere of "My America Too (Taking Theater to the Streets"), an int…
Careening seamlessly between the goofily sublime and the utterly ridiculous, "Sister Act" is pure musical comedy "nunsense" - a show (like the 1992 film that inspired it) designed to supply …
Scan the Chicago cultural landscape and you will notice that in many cases it is ...
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The Joffrey Ballet makes no small plans. And anyone who has caught its current "Bold Moves" program - running through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre - will know that its sensational dancer…
This month, in a fine confluence of events connected to Shakespeare 400 Chicago "Â the celebration ...
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A man of easy elegance and self-possession, as well as impeccable discretion and discipline, Alonzo Fields served four United States presidents - Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H…
"Madness is contagious." We hear this warning often throughout "2666," the monumental, labyrinthine, altogether hypnotic 5 1/2-hour magnum opus that has now arrived on the stage of the Good…
Three world premieres, two Midwest premieres and performances by Mike Nussbaum and Francis Guinan. That is the one-sentence summary of the 2016-2017 just announced by Skokie-based Northlight…
The first thing you might want to do before seeing Annie Baker's 2014 Pultizer Prize-wining "The Flick," now in an ideally realized Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is to re-set your…
The clash of social classes has served as the high-octane fuel for countless British plays, from John Osborne's landmark 1956 work, "Look Back in Anger," to Laura Wade's scathing "Posh," fir…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of "Cabaret," Kander and Ebb's genius of a musical about the end of the flamboyant era of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the N…
Blair Brown has joined the cast of the Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere of Tracy Letts' "Mary Page Marlowe."
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"Far From Heaven," the musical by Scott Frankel (music), Michael Korie (lyrics) and Richard Greenberg (book) - based on the 2002 film by Todd Haynes that starred Julianne Moore as Cathy Whit…
