774 stories by "Hedy Weiss"
First, a toast to many things: To Queen Victoria, cigars and brandy, the arrested development ...
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The fourth annual edition of Chicago Theatre Week - a program presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago, that was designed to boost theater-going during …
"The Ben Hecht Show," written and performed by James Sherman, will have its premiere here in a Grippo Stage Company production set to run June 10-July 17 at Evanston's Piven Theatre, 927 Noy…
Writers Theatre, which has called the leafy, upscale, North Shore town of Glencoe its home since its founding in 1992 by reigning artistic director Michael Halberstam, is about to open the d…
Rarely has a new musical ("Broadway-bound" or otherwise) arrived on a local stage with the sort of superb, highly polished gloss that marks every aspect of "The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Hol…
Horton Foote, the Texas-born playwright who died in 2009, at the age of 92, was often called "the Chekhov of the American South." His melodrama-farce, "The Old Friends," now at Raven Theatre…
For "Bold Moves," the Joffrey Ballet's winter program of three works, artistic director Ashley Wheater has tapped British choreographer Ashley Page to create a world premiere piece. Page's "…
Chicago actor Jim Sherman was on stage playing the role of Gustav Stossel in the Mercury Theater production of "The Christmas Schooner" until just less than a month ago - the tenth time he h…
Playwright Terrence McNally was already in middle age by the 1980s, when the AIDS crisis ...
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Something unusual is at play from the moment the lights come up on "Measure for Measure" - the Russian language co-production of London's Cheek by Jowl and Moscow's Pushkin Theatre being pre…
Heidi Stillman has been chosen as Lookingglass Theatre's next artistic director.
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There are a few crucial things you should know about Neil LaBute's paired programs of 11 one acts, which are organized under the separate titles, "Virtues" and "Vices," and are now receiving…
Driving home from the Goodman Theatre on Monday night - where "Another Word for Beauty," Jose Rivera's play about life in a high security women's prison in Bogota, Colombia received its worl…
American Blues Theater, the company whose recent memorable productions have included "Side Man," "Hank Williams: Lonesome Highway" and "The Rainmaker," has announced its 2016-2017 season.
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Broadway musicals can be intriguing barometers of where mainstream audiences happened to be at any particular point in history. This was driven home after watching the exuberant Paramount Th…
How do you inject genuine fun, fizz and frenzy into "Bye Bye Birdie," the musical that arrived on Broadway in 1960, served as an homage to the 1950s, and now, in so many ways, might easily f…
The legacy of the Black Power movement of the 1960s is still open to fierce debate. But what is often neglected in all the talk is any consideration of the fallout that period had on the chi…
A Red Orchid Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' "The Mutilated" is a sort of act of salvation for the playwright. And watching it you cannot help but think that Williams is looking …
Two very different events "Â but both with decidedly East-West connections "Â are headed to Chicago stages ...
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Consider these statistics: During the course of his life William Shakespeare is believed to have ...
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As Robert Frost famously wrote: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." But to judge by Dan LeFranc's dreadful new play, "Bruise Easy," now receiving …
The law office that serves as the backdrop for "London Wall" - the beguiling vintage classic by John Van Druten that has been revived with period-perfect flair for its Griffin Theatre produc…
Watching "Satchmo at the Waldorf," Terry Teachout's fascinating one-man (three character) fantasia about Louis Armstrong - now in its Midwest permiere at Court Theatre, where Barry Shabaka H…
With its ravishing singing and orchestral accompaniment, its vivid acting, and its stark, stunningly modern design, the Marriott Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" is transfixing on ev…
One thing is clear: Lyric Opera of Chicago has made no small plans for its 2016-2017 season.
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