The Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its 2025/26 season with a blockbuster with Italian composer Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. Just hearing the name evokes a dark tale of obsession, misogyny, and […]
Early on in Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way, Maxim Samson writes, “Every landscape tells a story—the challenge is […]
My afternoon at Illinois Tech’s Hermann Hall started off with a hearty welcome by speaker Kate McKinnon to young readers. She was sure to bring them into the realms of […]
I’ll fully admit that neither 1982’s groundbreaking sci-fi adventure Tron, nor its 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy did much for me. The neon-soaked artificial environments certainly did a number on my […]
Effectively an update of the Cold War thriller Fail Safe (with a few major differences), director Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite is a single story told from three interconnected […]
There are few shows as completely entrancing as a Destroyer show. There is just something about Dan Bejar, founding member and lead vocalist, that grabs hold of you before he […]
Jennifer Lopez launched her film career with 1997’s Selena, portraiying the titular, on-the-brink-of-global-stardom Tejano singer and performer. In the nearly 30 years since, her on-screen credits have ranged from action […]
Writer Patrick T. Reardon has applied his chops to everything from journalism to regular book reviews for TCR. But his latest work returns to one of his favorite literary forms—poetry. […]
Something about Hyde Park is inspirational. It is a vibrant cultural hub with welcoming spaces that foster the growth of artists and their craft. My first dive into the Ear […]
As a 13-year-old, I left my family’s home on Chicago’s West Side to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood at a high school seminary about 50 miles away in Momence, […]
It’s probably a weird year for an indie-rock band to be declaring “It’s a Beautiful Place.” But the duo behind Water From Your Eyes aren’t exactly known for making explicit […]
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is an American classic so excellent, so full of wisdom and raw emotion, that any production stands to be a helluvah show. Now at […]