He wore a black patch over his right eye while the other eye, the good eye, looked out towards the standing room only audience. Salman Rushdie wasted no time in […]

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is an excellent intro to choral music: only 65 minutes long and already quite familiar as the dramatic flair of “O Fortuna” can be heard in […]

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center gave a surprising and charming performance of string quintets at Harris Theater on Wednesday night. It was surprising because they performed several rarely […]

As someone who’s been meaning to visit Writers Theatre but was struggling to get out of the city and up to Glencoe, I can say that my trip was more […]

One of the many fascinating things about a city like Chicago is how the lives of millions of strangers are unknowingly intertwined. Barry Pearce gets at this in a savvy […]

Words can barely convey how much I have always hated the Now You See Me movies. And the fact that Now You See Me: Now You Don’t director Ruben Fleischer […]

If you’ve only seen the 1987 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man and never read the 1982 novel (originally published under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, but written in 1973), […]

I like to think of Jill Lepore sitting down at her desk to plan her new book on the US Constitution. We don’t need just another history, she thinks. There […]

We hardly knew ye Or at the very least we took you for granted Even though your pedigree runs deep Alexander Hamilton gave you birth Despite your modesty You meant […]

Reviewed by Tori Rego To talk about Pretty Punks by Jessie McCarty, it is necessary to talk about W.B. Yeats. Like many, I’d venture to guess, I had not experienced […]

It’s hardly breaking news that Nicolas Cage has starred in some doozies over his long career. But I’ll fully admit, it’s because an actor of his caliber still takes a […]

Combining a family drama with the world’s obsession with truffles and truffle hunting (it’s a thing, trust me), filmmaker Gabriele Fabbro (The Grand Bolero) brings us Trifole, the story of […]