185 stories by "Hugh Iglarsh"
These fables do manage to teach some important morals.
"Alma" sensitively weaves together the personal and political in this tale of an immigrant single mother originally from Mexico and her rebellious U.S.-born teenage daughter.
Under Terry McCabe's crisp direction, this 1925 play comes saucily to life, its portrayal of showbiz self-absorption and social insensitivity as fresh and stinging as an Oscar-night slap.
Well cast and imaginatively staged by adapter/director Kevin Theis, Oak Park Theatre Festival's telling of "The Winter's Tale" is a consistently engaging and occasionally enthralling way to …
"Antigone" is perhaps the oldest depiction we have of civil disobedience, focusing on the tension between the state and the individual conscience.
A real minefield of a drama, focusing on how the macro issues of race, class and gender affect the micro world of workplace relationships.
"Both [ballets] are trying to deal with a particular time: One by healing with the beauty of dance, the other by trying to create empathy for beaten-down humanity. Right now, we're facing so…
The drama takes place over a non-sequential series of Passovers, beginning in 2019 Los Angeles, as three generations of a Sephardic Jewish clan come together.
Featuring a bravura performance by Jim Ortlieb, this show is all about getting reacquainted with the joys, stresses and sheer sensation of real life after a too-long hibernation.
"Solaris" takes us on a mind-bending philosophical and spiritual journey, probing into the nature of reality and identity.
The play focuses on Anthony and Rosemary, forty-ish neighbors whose farms and personal histories are deeply enmeshed.
As with the epic tales of the ancient world, the characters' stories blend together into one complex, interrelated narrative that gives insight into the past and offers moral and practical g…
Joffrey Ballet performs a miracle, turning this holiday chestnut into something not just fresh and new, but also relevant and provocative.
The story revolves around Kit, a loyal young daughter struggling to pay off the debts of her father, who as the play opens is languishing in a debtors prison.
The Joffrey Ballet's triumphal return to live performance is a multi-sensory delight that serves as a joyful homecoming for a crown jewel of Chicago's cultural scene.
The festival is a testament to the resourcefulness and survival skills of the theater community at a tough moment.
A new production reflects on the life of the twentieth-century Jewish scholar and activist who was moved by faith to confront injustice.
The great test facing the fearful protagonists of this rarely produced Tennessee Williams play"simply going outside"is disturbingly pertinent at this moment.
The real poison at work here isn't strychnine or hemlock, it's a dreary self-seriousness that leaches the play of any hint of wit, humor and humanity.
Hardly seen in the past fifty years, the enterprising thespians at TATL offer a timely revival of this biting one-act satire by comic genius Elaine May.
Underneath the well-wrought exterior of this gratuitously convoluted, neo-noir drama is a conspicuous absence of heart, soul and meaning.
The world premiere of Meghan Brown's play seems less a futurist fantasy than a parable of life in a failed state turned patriarchal prison-house.
"Theater should be an intimate experience. It's supposed to feel dirty and rough."
