Kathy D. Hey writes creative non-fiction essays. A lifelong Chicagoan, she is enjoying life with her husband, daughter and three dogs in the wilds of Edgewater. When she isn’t at her computer, she is in her garden growing vegetables and herbs for kitchen witchery.
BareFace is a new ballet from Ballet 5:8, created by artistic director Juliana Rubio Slager. It is an intriguing blend of myths from the Greeks, Romans, and the blended classical […]
Oscar Wilde is remembered for being a poet and playwright as well as the victim of a criminal conviction for “gross indecency” because of consensual homosexual acts. He possessed a […]
Kishi Bashi is a well-known artist in the Indie music sphere. Based in Athens Georgia, where other Indie luminaries such as the B52s and REM launched their careers, his blend […]
The American Ballet Theatre is a venerable institution also known as America’s National Ballet Company. Their stop through Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre proves that it is a title well-earned […]
I remember Alanis Morrisette back in the mid-’90s on MTV. Her album Jagged Little Pill was ubiquitous on the radio and on a continuous loop in my daughter’s bedroom. The […]
Survival of the fittest means that a species that adapts to its environment will be the best suited to reproduce—aka Darwinism. Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Babel presents a dystopian view of […]
.Composer Justine Chen and librettist David Simpatico have worked for over a decade to bring The Life and Death[s] of Alan Turing to the opera stage. It was commissioned in […]
I grew up watching shows like Ed Sullivan and American Bandstand. The most memorable act was the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. The Ikettes formed a backdrop to the long-legged […]
The Chicago Philharmonic is known as “the People’s Orchestra.” They have regaled audiences with a variety of classical, jazz, gospel contemporary, and the music of young composers from their Donna […]
Quite a few people say they love the music of Billie Holiday, having heard only God Bless the Child or—the song controversial in its time—Strange Fruit. Those songs cannot come […]
What do you get when you mix Englebert Humperdinck, a visual homage to German expressionism, Weimar decadence, and gorgeous singing? The answer is Hansel and Gretel at the Lyric Opera. […]
The Chicago Philharmonic mirrored the kaleidoscope of Chicago diversity of their performance of several works, including two concertos by composer Tan Dun and one by The Chicago Phil’s composer in […]