If you have tickets for Northlight Theatre’s The First Lady of Television, you may think you are going to see a comedy about the beloved Molly Goldberg and her 1950s […]
Nova Linea Musica returned for a second season with pianist and composer Conrad Tao leading Echoes and Algorithms on Wednesday night. NLM is a music incubator that provides musicians and […]
Cartoonist Robert Crumb is, inarguably, a master of his craft. For 60 years he’s created a distinctive style and memorable characters, while inspiring generations of artists. He’s also a polarizing […]
When it premiered on PBS in early 2011, Downton Abbey took a certain subset of American audiences—ones who enjoy period pieces, glossy soap operas and all things British—by storm. Set […]
For the second year in a row, Music of the Baroque was blessed with wonderful weather as the orchestra and chorus, led by Dame Jane Glover, cruised down the Chicago […]
Last fall, I had the pleasure of organizing a poetry reading with local poets on celebrating transformation, the unknown, and the changing of the seasons. It was then when I […]
Though it’s being released in September, The Baltimorons might be the best holiday film of the year; you’ll want to see it in theaters this week, then stream it from […]
When Elizabeth Messick, the more attractive half of the magical duo the Cosmic Romantics—that’s straight out of her partner Eric Thirstin’s introduction, not my own editorializing—first appears on stage during […]
This weekend, Chicago’s north side will welcome a new performance space intended for contemporary classical chamber music. Formed by Access Contemporary Music, The CheckOut is turning a long-vacant 7-Eleven into […]
Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]
In Jane Russell’s first movie role in 1943, her bra was the star, even though it barely seemed to be there. The publicity posters for The Outlaw, directed by Howard […]
The American Chamber Music Society introduced its second season with a radiant concert at PianoForte Studio in the South Loop on Saturday night. Headed by Chicago-based violinist Eric Gratz, ACMS […]