Examining both the dehumanizing experience of being in prison and the healing power of the creative arts, writer/director Greg Kwedar’s deeply moving drama Sing Sing is based on the real-life […]
This article was written by Tory Crowley. Watching The Bohemian is like entering another world. In a sense, we are entering the world of real-life Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, who […]
It took J.R.R. Tolkien three books, 62 chapters and more than a half-million words to tell his legendary story of Frodo Baggins and the quest to save Middle Earth. Adapted […]
In my first experience with overcast weather at the Grant Park Music Festival this summer, the orchestra gave an enjoyable concert at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday evening. With the […]
There were moments in the first two Deadpool movies in which the fourth-wall-breaking Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) would poke gentle fun at both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men […]
I’m not a tomato lover. I can’t pluck a cherry tomato off the vine and eat it raw and undressed. I used to tell my mom, no tomatoes, please. But […]
For seemingly the first time in quite a while, Pitchfork Music Festival went off without a sudden cancellation or downpour! The weather stayed perfectly pleasant, letting the aforementioned lineup perform […]
I was 16 when For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf premiered on Broadway in 1976 and started making waves in the Black community. I […]
Being considered a “boy genius” probably heightened Orson Welles’ substantial ego. In October 1940, his chutzpah enabled him to knock on the hotel room door of a man long recognized […]
Samuel D. Hunter has received a lot of attention in recent years, with Little Bear Ridge Road now receiving rave reviews at Steppenwolf, and the success of The Whale, a […]
“I’m in a New York state of mind”–Billy Joel New York is a city of islands or near-islands. In all, there are more than three dozen of them, inhabited and […]
Under another beautiful evening and sunset, the Grant Park Orchestra continued its excellent season at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday evening. Conductor Eric Jacobsen called the program “inspired” because the […]