The Outsiders, a 2024 musical based on the 1967 S.E. Hinton novel about coming-of-age in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, returns to Chicago in its first national Broadway tour. The word “returns” […]
At the top of the end credits of Crime 101, the new heist drama, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan, is the line “Based on the […]
Marking the feature film debut from director Tyree Dillihay (who helmed many episodes of Bob’s Burgers over the years) and co-director Adam Rosette, GOAT is the animated coming-of-age story of […]
Whether or not you read (or were forced to read) the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë doesn’t really factor into the viewing of writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. […]
The life of Jesus has been recounted for two thousand years: the scenes of his birth and infanthood, the story of his three-day visit to the Temple at the age […]
British filmmaker Bart Layton wrote, directed and produced the groundbreaking debut documentary The Imposter (2012) about Frederic Bourdin, a charismatic French con artist and serial identity thief who pretended to be […]
Following last year’s release of her astronomically spectacular powerhouse album, The BPM, multi-instrumentalist and singer Brittney Denise Parks, better known by her stage name as Sudan Archives, has embarked on […]
What is this salty discharge? The average human tear contains about 2% electrolytes. Especially emotional droplets need even more salt ions to maintain balance in the eye. Therefore, there is […]
Hedda and Nora. A 19th century Norwegian playwright created two female protagonists that resonate with us strongly today. Nora, in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) reminds us of the […]
There is so much good about the Goodman Theatre’s current production of Holiday that I wish it were better. It’s an understatement to say that the play arrives with some […]
That sketch comedy tends to be a predominantly white art form is a bit of a “chicken and egg” situation—it took seven years before Bob Curry became the first Black […]
Since nobody seems to be talking about climate change any more, classical music in Chicago has taken up the mantle, at least during the first week of February. Soprano Renée […]