The holiday season is in full effect as even more winter festivities are making their way onto the calendar! Ice skating, holiday lights, and winter markets filled with gift ideas […]

Atop Hawksmoor steakhouse, in the former Michael Jordan restaurant location on LaSalle in River North, is a newish second-story venue, the Beef & Liberty Bar. The décor evokes upscale English […]

Coming through Chicago at about the halfway mark of her ambitiously extensive headline tour, the ever-charming singer songwriter King Princess made her Salt Shed debut last week. Bringing along the […]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Whenever I speak or hear the name, his glorious and stirring Requiem is the first thing that springs to mind. Sir Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is now playing […]

Some people are born with an inner light that fills every room they enter. By all accounts, Chicago-born Mia Zapata, singer/songwriter for the Gits, had talent, presence, and charisma to […]

Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is both mythic and intimate. So, too, are the woodcuts Barry Moser created for the centennial edition from the University of […]

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday at the Auditorium. It is another treasure in Chicago’s glittering and vibrant cultural scene, .yet another distinguished dance company […]

He wore a black patch over his right eye while the other eye, the good eye, looked out towards the standing room only audience. Salman Rushdie wasted no time in […]

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is an excellent intro to choral music: only 65 minutes long and already quite familiar as the dramatic flair of “O Fortuna” can be heard in […]

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center gave a surprising and charming performance of string quintets at Harris Theater on Wednesday night. It was surprising because they performed several rarely […]

As someone who’s been meaning to visit Writers Theatre but was struggling to get out of the city and up to Glencoe, I can say that my trip was more […]

One of the many fascinating things about a city like Chicago is how the lives of millions of strangers are unknowingly intertwined. Barry Pearce gets at this in a savvy […]