We collaborate with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall and appear on their Sunday afternoon arts radio show occasionally. Playtime broadcasts on WCGO, 1590AM and 95.9FM, each Sunday from 1 to 3pm […]
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven in the 2019-2020 season, Symphony Center Presents is bringing in leading performers to play all 32 of […]
Commencing last week with journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Chicago Humanities Festival continues to celebrate its 30th anniversary in full force with acclaimed author George R.R. Martin being the […]
Lucy Dacus opened Thursday’s Park West set with “Trust,” a cut off her first album No Burden that she wrote when she was 16. It’s unfathomable how a teenager could […]
A 55th anniversary is no small thing; most marriages don’t make it to that milestone, let alone annual arts events. But here we are, with the Chicago International Film Festival […]
You might look at Mosquitoes as two plays, stitched together. Set mostly in Geneva, Switzerland, where nuclear scientists work on the Hadron Collider, you have the excitement of scientific challenge […]
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 55th Chicago International Film Festival kicks off on October 16 at the AMC River East 21 (where nearly every festival screening will, once […]
The final shot of Pedro Almodóvar’s achingly beautiful Pain and Glory is the stuff that cinematic perfection is made of. Not only is it gorgeously staged and framed, but there’s a […]
I will never look at the trombone the same way again. The Chicago Philharmonic may be the newer and smaller-scale cousin to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but its […]
The first thing I noticed about this new iteration of The Addams Family is that the characters look a lot like the original iteration of the Charles Addams’ cartoon series […]
Some concert nights are just special. Everything falls into place and the performances feel grand. Such was the case when Orville Peck and The Bobby Tenderloin Universe packed (and I […]
It’s almost impossible to watch Eddie Murphy take on the character of world-famous stand-up performer/blaxploitation actor/rap pioneer Rudy Ray Moore and not wonder what took him so long to do […]
