Thank you Sharon Hoyer and Newcity Stage for including Guardians of the Earth and Sky in "Dance Top 5" for July 2025! www.newcitystage.com/2025/06/24/d...
July 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thank you Sharon Hoyer and Newcity Stage for including Guardians of the Earth and Sky in "Dance Top 5" for July 2025! www.newcitystage.com/2025/06/24/d...
Midway through AN ILIAD, a litany of wars begins, as if on one breath that lasts minutes, years, lifetimes, an eternity, ending with (ongoing) Gaza—already outdated by new violence by Israel and Iran. chicagoreader.com/performing-a... @chicagoreader.com #courttheatre
An Iliad remains bleakly contemporary - Chicago Reader
Court's one-man retelling of the Homeric epic returns for a fourth and final time—with a longer litany of human carnage.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Midway through AN ILIAD, a litany of wars begins, as if on one breath that lasts minutes, years, lifetimes, an eternity, ending with (ongoing) Gaza—already outdated by new violence by Israel and Iran. chicagoreader.com/performing-a... @chicagoreader.com #courttheatre
If you like the Nutcracker, you'll love Christopher Wheeldon's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND in its US premiere by the Joffrey Ballet chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Another Wheeldon ballet filled with wonders - Chicago Reader
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the Joffrey offers some spectacular visions, but also raises questions of representation.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you like the Nutcracker, you'll love Christopher Wheeldon's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND in its US premiere by the Joffrey Ballet chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
A casual holiday fender bender in a mall parking lot is the meet-cute for Gina and David in Lisa Sanaye Dring's KAIROS by Red Theater @chicagoreader.com
Eternal youth - Chicago Reader
In Lisa Sanaye Dring's Kairos, now at Red Theater, a couple finds out immortality isn't everything they'd imagined.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A casual holiday fender bender in a mall parking lot is the meet-cute for Gina and David in Lisa Sanaye Dring's KAIROS by Red Theater @chicagoreader.com
We are thinking about Links Hall tonight -- here's an interview with the founders and a short history of this beloved space for making and sharing I wrote for its Pay the 40th Forward Anniversary season @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
Links Hall celebrates 40 years of being whatever the Chicago dance community needs it to be - Chicago Reader
It’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
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April 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
We are thinking about Links Hall tonight -- here's an interview with the founders and a short history of this beloved space for making and sharing I wrote for its Pay the 40th Forward Anniversary season @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/arts-culture...
Thank you Zoe Pharo for this feature on Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 in Hyde Park Herald -- please join on March 25 for the next performance in collaboration with Norman W. Long, Sharon Udoh, and Sara Zalek www.hpherald.com/arts_and_ent...
Irene Hsiao dances with the moon in HPAC residency
Irene Hsiao wants to make visual and performance art that's participatory.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thank you Zoe Pharo for this feature on Mond(e): 月亮代表我的心 in Hyde Park Herald -- please join on March 25 for the next performance in collaboration with Norman W. Long, Sharon Udoh, and Sara Zalek www.hpherald.com/arts_and_ent...
On Joffrey Ballet's GOLDEN HOUR for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Golden and green - Chicago Reader
A world premiere of Princess and the Pea is a highlight of the four contemporary works in Joffrey's Golden Hour.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
On Joffrey Ballet's GOLDEN HOUR for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Reposted by Irene Hsiao
@irenechsiao.bsky.social wrote this absolutely gorgeous review of "Golden Hour" at the Joffrey for @chicagoreader.com. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Golden and green - Chicago Reader
A world premiere of Princess and the Pea is a highlight of the four contemporary works in Joffrey's Golden Hour.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@irenechsiao.bsky.social wrote this absolutely gorgeous review of "Golden Hour" at the Joffrey for @chicagoreader.com. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
CIRCUS QUIXOTE at Lookingglass Theatre chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
The windmills of their minds - Chicago Reader
Lookingglass returns to live performance after an 18-month hiatus with a rambunctious circus-inspired take on Don Quixote.
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February 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
CIRCUS QUIXOTE at Lookingglass Theatre chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Lloyd Suh's THE HEART SELLERS, directed by Helen Young at Northlight Theatre for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
The Heart Sellers is urgent and poignant - Chicago Reader
Lloyd Suh's story of two Asian immigrant women in the U.S. in 1973 shows "strangers earnestly trying to connect in the smallest of boxes."
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February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Lloyd Suh's THE HEART SELLERS, directed by Helen Young at Northlight Theatre for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Reposted by Irene Hsiao
“If the Sky Could Dream: Dragonatomy” at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, was such a treat, weaving together the ancient and today with the performances by @irenechsiao.bsky.social, Paige Brown, Hunter Diamond, Menghua Guan, Amanda Maraist, Penny Li, Scott Rubin, and Darling "Shear" Squire.
January 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
“If the Sky Could Dream: Dragonatomy” at the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, was such a treat, weaving together the ancient and today with the performances by @irenechsiao.bsky.social, Paige Brown, Hunter Diamond, Menghua Guan, Amanda Maraist, Penny Li, Scott Rubin, and Darling "Shear" Squire.
Winter performance preview with @kerryreid.bsky.social and @deannaisaacs.bsky.social @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Distractions and attractions onstage this season - Chicago Reader
Our critics select a few promising offerings in comedy, dance, opera, and theater to get you through the dark, cold season.
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January 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Winter performance preview with @kerryreid.bsky.social and @deannaisaacs.bsky.social @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Puppetry as communal expression, as objects that connect people to each other: POTENTIAL ENERGY, curated by Grace Needlman and Will Bishop, featuring many Chicago puppet artists, at Chicago Cultural Center, part of Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
'An object animated to create the illusion of life' - Chicago Reader
The Chicago Cultural Center's latest exhibit, "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close," celebrates the city as a center of puppet arts.
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January 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Puppetry as communal expression, as objects that connect people to each other: POTENTIAL ENERGY, curated by Grace Needlman and Will Bishop, featuring many Chicago puppet artists, at Chicago Cultural Center, part of Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
It’s always Christmas at the Bayard house -- Thornton Wilder's THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER by TUTA Theatre at Bramble Arts Loft @chicagoreader.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Tragic smallness - Chicago Reader
Thornton Wilder'sThe Long Christmas Dinner, now revived by TUTA, traces one family through 90 years of mundanity and loss.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:41 PM
It’s always Christmas at the Bayard house -- Thornton Wilder's THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER by TUTA Theatre at Bramble Arts Loft @chicagoreader.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
On the US premiere of Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté's THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET: PRINCE OF DENMARK @chicagoreader.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
'More matter, less art' - Chicago Reader
The U.S premiere of Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté's dance version of Hamlet shuffles the story well, but loses the characters' complexity.
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November 25, 2024 at 7:40 PM
On the US premiere of Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté's THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET: PRINCE OF DENMARK @chicagoreader.bsky.social chicagoreader.com/performing-a...