With Nicholas Kraemer directing from the harpsichord, Music of the Baroque gave an interesting if incomplete performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at Harris Theater on Monday night. It […]
When we spoke with Cinema/Chicago Artistic Director Mimi Plauché a year ago, she was on the verge of launching the landmark 60th Chicago International Film Festival at various venues across […]
The 8-year-old inside me perked up early in my reading of Leaf Town Forever when two friends are hired by Lucinda at the Treasure Shop to search for treasures, such […]
Heading into its 61st year, the Chicago International Film Festival shows no signs of slowing down. From October 15 through 26, the festival will pop up at venues across the […]
Three ageless witchy sisters live together in a basement apartment in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood something like Edgewater or Andersonville. Wyrd is a 2018 play written by Matt Minnicino that […]
Ear Taxi Festival 2025 delivered another excellent concert on Saturday night, this one an Anchor Performance at Gannon Hall in DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center. There, the William Ferris Chorale, […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2025/26 season with a blockbuster with Italian composer Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. Just hearing the name evokes a dark tale of obsession, misogyny, and […]
Early on in Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way, Maxim Samson writes, “Every landscape tells a story—the challenge is […]
My afternoon at Illinois Tech’s Hermann Hall started off with a hearty welcome by speaker Kate McKinnon to young readers. She was sure to bring them into the realms of […]
I’ll fully admit that neither 1982’s groundbreaking sci-fi adventure Tron, nor its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy did much for me. The neon-soaked artificial environments certainly did a number on my […]
Effectively an update of the Cold War thriller Fail Safe (with a few major differences), director Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a single story told from three interconnected […]
There are few shows as completely entrancing as a Destroyer show. There is just something about Dan Bejar, founding member and lead vocalist, that grabs hold of you before he […]