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It’s that time of year: we’re reaching out to you, our readers, because we know you appreciate what we do and want us to be able to keep doing it. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 9, 2025
    • Children's theater , Review , Stages , Storefront

    Review: A Year With Frog and Toad Delights Kids and Parents at Young People’s Theatre  

    A Year With Frog and Toad may not be a holiday play but it is a celebration of friendship throughout the seasons, from the moment the two friends wake from […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 8, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Joffrey’s Sparkling Nutcracker Delivers Sugar Plums, Magic, and Spectacle

    Let us now consider the sugar plum. For years, I thought it was an artisan plum rolled in silver sugar. I was this many years old when I discovered that […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • December 8, 2025
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Snocaps Get Off to a Great Start in First Night at Thalia Hall

    I honestly can’t think of a better way to see a surprise new band with a name like Snocaps than fresh off our first snow of the season. And they […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • December 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Filmed Version of Merrily We Roll Along Revival Starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez Is a Close-Up Gift to Musical Theater History

    Over the course of his storied career, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim had quite a stunning list of successes and very few misses. His greatest fail, however, came in 1981 […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Detailing the Publication’s History and High Esteem, The New Yorker at 100 Offers a Glimpse into Process, Legacy

    Directed by Marshall Curry (an Oscar-winning shorts filmmaker) and narrated by Julianne Moore, The New Yorker at 100 tells the fairly straightforward but no less interesting tale of both the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 5, 2025
    • Food , Review

    Review: Zarella, River North’s New Bustling Pizzeria

    A few months ago, I stumbled upon a TikTok detailing a dinner out at a new River North spot. I saw mozzarella sticks and pasta, in a dimly lit, cozy […]

  • Elizabeth Deneff
  • December 5, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque Keep The Messiah Fresh

    As I listened to Dame Jane Glover conduct the Music of the Baroque Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” for the third time in as many months, it dawned […]

  • Louis Harris
  • December 3, 2025
    • Events , Interviews , Lit , Live lit events , Poetry

    Interview: Madeline Blair and Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine

    Even before its release, Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is something of a success. Rarely does a new arts and literary journal receive more than 300 submissions for its first call. […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • December 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Hamnet, Oscar-Winner Chloe Zhao Channels Grief, Family and Shakespeare for One of the Year’s Best

    The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 29, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Zootopia 2 Brings Fresh Ideas and Familiar Animals to a Crime Caper With Multiple Moving Parts

    I had to recheck my notes to fully grasp that it’s been almost 10 years since the original, wildly successful Zootopia hit theaters. But now, two of its original directors […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Interview: Japanese Filmmaker Hikari on the Real Companies Renting Friends, Mourners and More That Inspired New Film Rental Family

    In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
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