This review was written by Zach Carstensen. On Valentine’s Day weekend, Chicago City Opera brought Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon (Cinderella) to the CheckOut in Lakeview, proving that you don’t need a […]
I saw the morning performance of The Hobbit by Young People’s Theatre Saturday, expecting the house to be full of squealy kids with parents. I was only slightly surprised to […]
Each February, thick-blooded Chicago punks gather on a side street in Ukrainian Village to mosh in assuredly dreadful weather while would-be concertgoers across the country are holed up in their […]
Over the last few years, Chicago’s young Gwydion Theatre Company has proven itself a reliable protectorate of great literature. In October, I favorably reviewed its production of Death of a […]
You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]
The Outsiders, a 2024 musical based on the 1967 S.E. Hinton novel about coming-of-age in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, returns to Chicago in its first national Broadway tour. The word “returns” […]
This Valentine’s Week, my partner and I headed to Olio e Più in River North. We were met with the perfect atmospheric evening, starting with the restaurant’s Martini Monday special […]
At the top of the end credits of Crime 101, the new heist drama, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan, is the line “Based on the […]
As history tells it, in 1979, the space station known as Skylab came crashing down to Earth, most of its pieces burning up during atmospheric re-entry; the pieces that actually […]
The running gag in the web series Nirvanna The Band The Show is that the titular fictional band has never actually written or recorded any music. We’d get snippets of […]
Marking the feature film debut from director Tyree Dillihay (who helmed many episodes of Bob’s Burgers over the years) and co-director Adam Rosette, GOAT is the animated coming-of-age story of […]
Whether or not you read (or were forced to read) the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë doesn’t really factor into the viewing of writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. […]
