Hedda! A Musical Conversation at Athenaeum Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Conversing directly with the audience the night after hosting a party in her home, a slightly wobbly Hedda fields phone calls from movie stars and moguls, right-wing politicos, and her family back in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as well as from her mentor and rival, Louella Parsons, with whom she maintains a public feud in order to boost both their followings. Hopper, known to some as "the mad hatter" because of her huge collection of bizarre bonnets, dishes the dirt about her celebrity friends and foes, including Charlie Chaplin, whom the arch-conservative Hedda despises as "a pedophile and a communist." Playing in repertory with The Garbo the Musical."

Chicago Theater and Arts - Recommended

"...‘Hedda! A Musical Conversation’ is a very entertaining one-woman show at the Athenaeum Theatre starring Jillann Gabrielle as legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper."