185 stories by "Hugh Iglarsh"
This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company provides much-needed holiday fare for families of the non-Noel persuasion.
There's no moral message or social insight to bog down this heart-pounding holiday journey at The Royal George Theatre.
Theatre Y presents the English-language premiere of this disquieting exploration of sacrifice and parenting.
The Goodman Theatre stages the world premiere of this bland and meandering reflection on the life of an artist who was anything but.
Combining his years as an improv artist with the storytelling possibilities of radio, Nate Herman's Films for the Ears produce one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff events.
The latest from Northlight Theatre follows a "ragtag little group of humans" through an increasingly contrived familial plot.
Black Button Eyes Productions captures the misanthropy in John Collier's stories but misses his sly take on the shadows surrounding civilized life.
There is not enough dramatic scaffolding to support the bulk of thematic materials in this world premiere from Promethean Theatre Ensemble.
Returning to the Goodman Theatre a year after suffering a heart attack while on its stage, Stacy Keach consummates his performance of the tumultuous, iconic Ernest Hemingway in this affectin…
Like the fields tilled by the victims of Holodomor, Abbey Fenbert's new play at Red Theater Chicago needs air and space in order to properly grow.
The Conspirators present a multi-level satire of just about everything in this sharp-edged and in touch production.
Performed in cramped quarters, BoHo Theatre's production of Sondheim's rarely revived musical reveals an ugliness beneath its polished, polyphonic surface.
Molly Smith Metzler's new play at Northlight Theatre explores the realities of modern motherhood.
Nell Benjamin's play at Citadel Theatre attempts to pose reactionary nostalgia as feminist provocation.
Piven Theatre Workshop and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre co-produce this place-based world premiere about Evanston's racially-charged history.
The Artistic Home's production of Paula Vogel's Pultizer Prize-winning play is storefront theater at its very best.
Even the formidable leads of this Northlight Theatre production cannot rescue it from Martin McDonagh's bone-deep cynicism.
Theater and art in general feed on attention and die of neglect.
Intelligence minus sympathy and compassion equals arrogance in this Goodman Theatre production.
The Plagiarists mashup 1959 drag comedy "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into an original and subversive world premiere.
Northlight Theatre completes Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy with a production that exerts more force than her script offers.
This Norwegian moral drama at Strawdog Theatre Company finds two prodigals returning home from America. Getting Ibsen's play to cross the gulf of time and space to Chicago, however, proves a…
In the shadow of nuclear armament, this behind-the-scenes political comedy lacks exactly what its leads are at risk of destroying: life itself.
Lolita Chakrabarti's story of Ira Aldridge returns to Chicago sans fanfare.
This dysfunctional family drama is heavy on the dysfunction and light on just about everything else.
