Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 6/2 and Beyond
Happy Pride Month! It’s the beginning of June and of course there is something great going on this weekend in Chicago! Whether you’re staying within the city limits or heading […]
Review: Filmmaker David Cronenberg Revisits Favorite Themes in Weird yet Rich Crimes of the Future
Having not yet read any opinions on the latest David Cronenberg treatise on the future of the body, sex, art, technology, and the ways in which the world will eventually […]
Review: Black Ensemble Theater’s Jubilant Grandma’s Jukebox Is a Return Home
I have been following Jackie Taylor’s Black Ensemble Theater (BET) since their days on Beacon and then to the beautiful new home on Clark. Unlike the old days on Beacon, […]
Review: Chicago Philharmonic’s Aretha Rising Paid (and Played) Respect
Chicago Philharmonic focused most of its 2021-22 season on great composers—such as Mozart, Copland, Brahms, Dvorak and Respighi—featured by most classical ensembles. But more than most orchestras, Chicago Philharmonic […]
Review: Makaya McCraven’s Avant-Garde Jazz Transports Lincoln Hall
The crowd at Makaya McCraven’s Friday night show at Lincoln Hall was as varied as the hometown artist’s take on jazz. The first of a two-night stint at the venue […]
Review: Raven Theatre Stages The Luckiest, a Play About Love and Family—With an Ironic Title
The Luckiest is the ironic title of a superb play by Melissa Ross, now on stage at Raven Theatre. It’s a play about family, love and relationships and how they matter, […]
Review: Court Theatre’s Two Trains Running Cannonballs Home
There are two ways to tell history: the Big Men, Big Events timeline that Henry Ford once called “just one damn thing after another” and a more involving, intimate option […]
Review: The Bob’s Burgers Movie Is More of What Fans of the Show Already Appreciate
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation), The Bob’s Burgers Movie doesn’t grow to fit the big […]
Review: A Styleless There Are No Saints Never Gets Beyond Crime Drama Tropes
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from what is apparently an old screenplay by the great Paul […]
Review: Dancing with Joy at Broadway in Chicago’s Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations
That drumbeat hits and then you hear a voice like no other—“I know you wanna leave me but I refuse to let you go!” The Temptations were like no other […]
Review: Tragic Hunchback Is Grand Finale to Milwaukee’s Skylight Music Theatre Season
Guest review by Anne Siegel. Milwaukee’s Skylight Music Theatre ends its 62nd season with a musical that was nearly 30 years in the making: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, created by Chicago-based […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/26 and Beyond
Warm days are back again just in time for Memorial Day weekend (and the Memorial Day Wreath-Laying Ceremony & Parade on Saturday) and of course there is something great going […]