Irene Hsiao

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...

08.07.2025 00:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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wars begins, as if on one breath that lasts minutes, years, lifetimes, an eternity, ending with (ongoing) Gaza—already outdated by new violence by Israel and Iran.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

19.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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...

11.06.2025 20:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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

30.04.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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...

18.04.2025 02:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Irene Hsiao dances with the moon in HPAC residency Irene Hsiao wants to make visual and performance art that's participatory.

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...

23.03.2025 02:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

On Joffrey Ballet's GOLDEN HOUR for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

25.02.2025 21:07 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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.

@irenechsiao.bsky.social wrote this absolutely gorgeous review of "Golden Hour" at the Joffrey for @chicagoreader.com. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

25.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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.

CIRCUS QUIXOTE at Lookingglass Theatre chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

16.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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."

Lloyd Suh's THE HEART SELLERS, directed by Helen Young at Northlight Theatre for @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

06.02.2025 20:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“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.

26.01.2025 02:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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.

Winter performance preview with @kerryreid.bsky.social and @deannaisaacs.bsky.social @chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

31.01.2025 20:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh wow!! Thank you for coming and taking these beautiful photos ❤️

31.01.2025 20:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'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.

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...

15.01.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tragic smallness - Chicago Reader Thornton Wilder'sThe Long Christmas Dinner, now revived by TUTA, traces one family through 90 years of mundanity and loss.

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...

04.12.2024 17:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'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.

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...

25.11.2024 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0