The Joffrey Ballet is known for its full-scale productions, which are cinematic in their staging. Atonement combined film noir with period piece drama. Studies in Blue was filled with dreamy […]
If you’re willing to trek to Skokie this weekend, it would be worth it to see Prime Minister, one of the best documentaries of the year and a much-needed salvo […]
Firmly in the realm of B-movies, director Michael Pearce’s (Beast, Encounter) Echo Valley is certainly elevated by the work of terrific and compelling actors, who consistently pick up the slack […]
In this mess of a Western from director Richard Gray (Murder at Yellowstone City, Robert the Bruce), we’re told the story of a young man named Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard), […]
Curtain opens, introduction of film through personal anecdoteI was one of those lucky enough to start following Pavement early in their career due to a college girlfriend with better musical […]
Angela Hewitt gave a riveting performance of one of the most intense pieces of music ever written for keyboard. At Ravinia’s Martin Theater on Wednesday evening, she was playing a […]
On the heels of the 2025 Tony Awards, where the delightful and surprisingly touching Maybe Happy Ending won the American Theater Wing’s award for Best New Musical, Chicago welcomes the […]
Move over, Marilyn McCoo… step aside, Nena… there’s a new balloon song in the air. A whole bunch of ’em, actually, at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where they’re producing the […]
I wholeheartedly reject the label of romantic-comedy for writer/director Celine Song’s (Past Lives) latest, Materialists, for no other reason than the film takes the ideas of relationships and coupling and […]
To call live-action remakes of classic animated films a mixed bag is a wild understatement, but successful ones usually see the filmmakers actually put some thought and attention into what […]
There’s no better time to spread some goodness around your community and Mrs. Meyer’s is about to do just that here in Chicago for the first time. Mrs. Meyer’s Compassion […]
Two nights ago I finished reading the marvelous and peculiar 2001 novel—Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish—by Australian author Richard Flanagan. In his pages of colorful prose, […]
