Despite the threat of rain looming over the headliners on day three, Riot Fest prevailed! The was no rain during the festival, instead it was the hot late summer day […]

The best-known of George Frideric Handel’s compositions—his Messiah oratorio and his Water Music suites, for example—are recognized by millions beyond the niche of classical music aficionados. But Handel wrote hundreds […]

Day two of Riot Fest took the energy that Friday served up and amplified it. The sounds of the day definitely had a little more punk attitude as bands like […]

Last year, the Lyric Opera presented a dazzling production of The Magic Flute originally conceived for Berlin’s Komische Oper by Australian director Barrie Kosky. Now, the Lyric is at it […]

Ah, Riot Fest. The last huge festival of the year took place this past weekend and it was the affair you’d expect it to be: amazing bands dazzling a crowded […]

As we left the Chopin Theatre Friday night, after an appropriately spooky and decidedly well-sung performance of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street presented by Kokandy Productions, I […]

I’ve been a little WWI obsessed for the last few years. It was a terrible, bloody conflict where soldiers had to fight under unfathomable hardships. I know capturing trench-style warfare in […]

Right out of the gate, I will say that the term ‘gothic’ certainly fits the story and the actions of the characters in Southern Gothic. Windy City Playhouse’s remount of […]

I’m a sucker for management games, and I’ve been waiting for the locally developed Onsen Master since I first saw it at (where and how long ago?). I was super […]

It’s a well-worn cliché to call a film a “slow burn,” but clichés got that way for a reason, and films like God’s Country prove why. Directed by Julian Higgins […]

Leaving the theater after seeing this wise and hysterically funny play, my first thought was, I would like to see this produced in Florida, where the governor and legislature have […]

Guest article by Shaela Johnston. YAKZ, aka David Mitori, is a dubstep producer currently living in Las Vegas, who has made a huge name for himself within underground dubstep scene. […]