We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show occasionally. Next week—October 13—Nancy Bishop, Stages editor, will join Bill and Kerri along with […]
Fans of bluegrass, classical, jazz and South Asian music came together at the Chicago Symphony Center Sunday evening for a concert by four world-class musicians who performed an eclectic symphony of world […]
Early October is a time of transitions. The leaves on the trees were as deep green as mid-summer as I set out on my Saturday walk to Green City Market in Lincoln […]
Plague Vendor are not known for their subtlety, and their performance at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen was anything but subtle. Eschewing a traditional light show, the band performed the entirety of their set […]
MacArthur Fellow (genius award) writer Ta-Nehisi Coates launched the Chicago Humanities Festival’s impressive 30th anniversary “Power” season with an engaging and lively discussion on October 2 at UIC’s Dorin Forum. The festival […]
On the way home from school one afternoon, a 10-year-old North Dakota boy named Wesley (newcomer Danny Murphy) stumbles upon a man (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, playing a character who is never […]
During World War II, when the Soviets were finally pushing the German forces back, an uprising in Poland was getting ready to kick off. The exiled Polish government gave the go ahead […]
The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon has a poetic title, both in English and in Spanish (Las Delicadas Lagrimas de ls Luna Menguante). Playwright and actor Rebeca Aleman has written an […]
Next month, the world will get a new Martin Scorsese movie, one that’s already being hailed as a return to his best gangster-movie ways (and even featuring a reliable cast of familiar […]
The Orion Ensemble opened its 27th season with their usual sort of concert that featured little-heard composers and a rarely heard work by a major composer. The second run-through of this program, […]
Although not technically a movie, this filmed version of writer/performer Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s recent revival of her one-woman show Fleabag (which then inspired the massively successful two-season BBC series) is available to view […]
I always look forward to documentaries made by Stanley Nelson, a filmmaker who seems to have taken it upon himself to tell some of the most fascinating and necessary stories of black […]
