Your Chicago Curated Weekend 7/7-7/10
I hope everyone had a fun and safe pre-fourth of July weekend. I’m still recovering from the holiday. Not so much from partying (of which there was a fair bit) […]
Stacey Comes Home: We Interview an Artist from Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk
Stacey Magiera is a gymnast turned circus artist who shows her incredible versatility by playing three different characters in Cirque du Soleil’s new show Toruk, which is coming to United […]
R.O.W.E. week 26: Write Bloody Poets
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and literature enthusiast. In 2016, I’m reading only women authors for my Read Only Women Experiment (R.O.W.E.). For weekly updates on challenges, conversations, and […]
Actors of Theatre at the Center’s Odd Couple Try to Redefine “Space Oddity”
Before there was a film rendition, a sitcom, an animated sitcom featuring a cat and a dog, a revival sitcom featuring the 1980s, and finally yet another sitcom featuring Chandler […]
New-to-Blu-ray: Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Alex is a freelance movie critic who specializes in writing about classic Hollywood movies from the 1920s, ’30s & ’40s. He has his own film blog and he writes about film […]
Book Review: The Great Books Foundation’s Her Own Accord
The Great Books Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501 (c)(3) educational organization that works to encourage “open discussion of literature that promotes civil discourse, civic engagement, and social justice.” With […]
Gift Theatre’s Grapes of Wrath Weaves Powerful Human Story of Depression Eras
The Gift Theatre’s eloquent new production of The Grapes of Wrath is a story of Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it bears witness […]
Preview: 28th Annual Chicago Duo Piano Festival Kicks Off This Weekend
The repertoire for piano duo is very rich, but performances can be rather rare. The Music Institute of Chicago has been remedying this situation with its annual Chicago Duo Piano […]
Driehaus Museum Shows Art & Satire of Gilded Age in Puck Magazine Exhibit
Puck, the 19th century literary-political-humor magazine, was revolutionary in ridiculing everything about Gilded Age society through cartoons created by gifted artists of the period. With a Wink and a […]
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Announces 2016 Lab Artist Recipients
Chicago Dancemakers Forum announced Wednesday the four Chicago-based dance artists chosen for the organization’s 2016 Lab Artist Awards. This year’s recipients are Catherine Sullivan, Onye Ozuzu, Carole McCurdy, and Pranita […]
The 3CR Staff’s Guide to a Better July
If you’re like me and you don’t yet have your life together enough to live in an air-conditioned apartment, you are looking for any reason to leave your home. Look […]
The BFG, The Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year, Swiss Army Man, Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, Our Kind of Traitor, Belladonna of Sadness
THE BFG Try as I might, I could not wrap my heart around director Steven Spielberg’s latest, The BFG, based on the Roald Dahl book and the final screenplay from Spielberg’s […]