Interview: Anna Castellani on Loop’s Hottest New Food Hall
Anna Castellani, founder of Local Culture Management, is known for seeing what a city has to offer, seeing what the city needs, and creating spaces that enhance and reflect the […]
Interview: Filmmakers Behind Sing Sing Discuss Casting Prison Theater Program Alumni, Filming in Prison and Fine-Tuning a Script Based on True Events
Examining both the dehumanizing experience of being in prison and the healing power of the creative arts, writer/director Greg Kwedar’s deeply moving drama Sing Sing is based on the real-life […]
Review: Italian Opera Drama The Bohemian Glimpses the Opulent World of an Underrated Composer
This article was written by Tory Crowley. Watching The Bohemian is like entering another world. In a sense, we are entering the world of real-life Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, who […]
Review: Chicago Shakespeare’s Lord of the Rings, a Musical Tale—an Epic Fail
It took J.R.R. Tolkien three books, 62 chapters and more than a half-million words to tell his legendary story of Frodo Baggins and the quest to save Middle Earth. Adapted […]
Review: Grant Park Orchestra Gives an Enjoyable Performance of Grieg, Joachim, and Beethoven
In my first experience with overcast weather at the Grant Park Music Festival this summer, the orchestra gave an enjoyable concert at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday evening. With the […]
Review: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Team Up for a Timeline-Hopping, Universe-Swapping Adventure in Deadpool and Wolverine
There were moments in the first two Deadpool movies in which the fourth-wall-breaking Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) would poke gentle fun at both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men […]
What’s Cooking at Third Coast? Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes
I’m not a tomato lover. I can’t pluck a cherry tomato off the vine and eat it raw and undressed. I used to tell my mom, no tomatoes, please. But […]
Pitchfork Music Festival 2024: Day Three in Review
For seemingly the first time in quite a while, Pitchfork Music Festival went off without a sudden cancellation or downpour! The weather stayed perfectly pleasant, letting the aforementioned lineup perform […]
Review: Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre Empowers Ntozake Shange’s 1976 MasterWork
I was 16 when For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf premiered on Broadway in 1976 and started making waves in the Black community. I […]
Review: In Wells and Welles, Lucid Theater Portrays the Day in 1940 When the Two Prodigies Meet
Being considered a “boy genius” probably heightened Orson Welles’ substantial ego. In October 1940, his chutzpah enabled him to knock on the hotel room door of a man long recognized […]
Review: A Case for the Existence of God at Steep Theatre Walks a Thin Line Between Hope and Despair
Samuel D. Hunter has received a lot of attention in recent years, with Little Bear Ridge Road now receiving rave reviews at Steppenwolf, and the success of The Whale, a […]
On the Road: Letter from New York—Culture Hopping in the City of Islands
“I’m in a New York state of mind”–Billy Joel New York is a city of islands or near-islands. In all, there are more than three dozen of them, inhabited and […]