By now, the four women of The Golden Girls have become woven into the fabric of American culture. Dorothy (David Cerna), Blanche (Grant Drager), Sophia (Kelly Bolton), and Rose (Ed […]
The setting is a church summer camp, now the site of the First Annual Solidarity and Truth Conference. Before the play begins, voices and visual projections describe the lives of T.I.s […]
For the third time in a month, pianist extraordinaire Evgeny Kissin graced the stage at Symphony Center with his powerful and dramatic technique on Sunday. The first two times he […]
For their final program of the 2025–26 season, the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians—drawn from the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—offered a thoughtful look at how geographic displacement can […]
I took a sentimental journey back to the ’80s recently when.Lynda Barry was featured at the Chicago Humanities Festival in a conversation with journalist and Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad. Barry is an […]
Not a word is spoken. The 90-minute performance by Trap Door Theatre is staged with music, recorded song and occasional dialog, but the seven actors say nothing. The production is […]
Opening night for the first play in Timeline Theatre’s new building was a sparkly affair. The audience was full of theater people and the level of drama was amped up […]
After last year’s release of Traces of You, a brand-new record based around abandoned song fragments from their archives, the thought of Ivy playing live in 2026 seemed too fanciful […]
Producer Cameron Mackintosh and his insanely talented creative team invite audiences to step into 19th century France in the infamous tale and beloved musical that is Les Misérables. Inspired by […]
This article was written by Lauren Weiner. Ah, the age-old adage of unrequited love. It’s familiar to some people: to be young and dumb and smitten for someone close by, […]
There’s no escaping the truth that The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest work from the great Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Non-Fiction, Demonlover, Irma Vep series), is long, dense, complex, […]
Everywhere The Monster goes, he leaves a trail of destruction in his path. Everything The Monster touches is damaged to one degree or another. Sometimes the damage is on the […]