It’s safe to assume that any Haymarket Opera Company performance will transport you from the blare of contemporary life to the more genteel soundscape of the baroque. Last weekend’s prod…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:15PMGioachino Rossini’s rambunctious 200-year-old score for his comic opera, La Cenerentola, gets very serious attention in Lyric Opera’s current revival of a 55-year-old production. Origina…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:38PMWhen Michael Fanone, the former Trump supporter and D.C. cop who nearly died at the hands of the January 6 mob at the U.S. Capitol, comes to the Chicago Humanities […] The post From domest…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:57PMMove over, Grandpa. You think ageism is your cause? Last week, Created Equal, an Ohio-based organization opposed to ending unwanted pregnancies came to town, making stops at the city’s lar…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:17AMLyric Opera introduced Chicago audiences to director Barrie Kosky last year, when it brought his production of The Magic Flute—created for Komische Oper Berlin, where he’s been music dir…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:41AMIt’s impossible to summarize everything that’s happening onstage this season. (It’s also hard to tell you exactly what COVID-19 precautions are required at venues now; we suggest check…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:09PMStarting Sunday, for three consecutive nights, WTTW will air a new six-hour Ken Burns documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Burns and his filmmaking partners, Lynn Novick and Sarah…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:20AMThanks to CNN, this weekend I went right from Lyric Opera’s season-opening production of Ernani—featuring Charles V of Spain—to the pomp and circumstance surrounding the launch of Char…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:32PMLast Sunday, stuffed with antibiotics, numbed by painkillers, and facing a date with an oral surgeon the next morning, I made my way to the International Museum of Surgical Science […] The…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMWhen Anne Ford interviewed Adam Selzer for the Reader in 2014, it was all about his job as a ghost tour leader. You didn’t have to read between the lines to sense that it wasn’t the perf…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMSo, a bicyclist walks up to a beach on the North Shore. It’s hot, he’s been riding, he just wants to put his feet in the cool Lake Michigan water that he can see sparkling behind a booth…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMNothing was said about it on the July 4 television interviews I saw, but among the security experts interviewed during coverage of the Highland Park parade shooting, one face and name had re…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:42AMThere’s a whole lot of story in history. And so much depends on the perspective of the storyteller. What, for example, will the future think it knows of our fraught time? What will be …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:22PMSummer is officially here, in case the sweat and lightning bugs weren’t enough of a clue. In addition to the shows and artists we profiled in our summer arts preview issue this week, we’…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:01PMThey were there. No fuss, no ballyhoo, but queer artists have been a significant part of Bronzeville’s South Side Community Art Center since its founding in 1940. You might or might not se…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:21PMLast week, amid the usual tsunami of grim news about inflation, mass shootings, pandemic, and war, came word that the New York Court of Appeals is considering whether the Bronx Zoo is violat…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMRegarding the recently revealed U.S. Supreme Court draft ruling on Roe v. Wade: WTF? Because, it’s the F we’re talking about, right? That little itch we’re biologically programmed to s…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:14AM"Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture" at CAC offers big pictures and tiny buildings. It's sad but true that we're never so much appreciated as when we're newly dead…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMIn “Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones,” Monica Brown traces ancestral legacies. Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMDr. Charles Smith and other artists find a new home at the Art Preserve. Before Black Lives Matter was a movement, Black lives mattered in the work of Dr. Charle…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:20AMThe "musician-governed" Chicago Philharmonic looks to innovative programming for the future. Last week the Chicago Philharmonic Society announced the appointment…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:45AMNorth Park Village Nature Center provides an ideal setting for Lyric's Hansel and Gretel. There’s no more perfect setting for Lyric Opera’s Hansel and Gretel…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:40AMThe Pritzker Museum highlights Bill Mauldin's 50-year fight with injustice. Editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose bedraggled “Willie and Joe” characters f…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:18PMLyric Opera of Chicago and the Joffrey Ballet announce in-person 2021-2022 seasons. At a joint press conference today on the stage of the opera house, Lyric Oper…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMCan we save his most important Chicago building? We didn't need the death of architect Helmut Jahn to bring the plight of the James R. Thompson Center to our att…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMWhile Chicago opera plays on your phone, Symphony Center announces May opening. We'll have to wait until sometime this summer to get the video stream Lyric Opera…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMThe Museum of Contemporary Photography's "Reproductive" raises questions about the future of Roe v. Wade. In startling news today, doctors in Missouri are report…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:30AMA year after the shutdown, they’re bringing it back. It was Friday, the 13th of March, 2020, when Lyric Opera general director Anthony Freud had to cancel the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMBut Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan. It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:15AMThe nuns are in COVID shutdown, but she's got a new, Chicago-centric book Vicki Quade had a new show opening at the Royal George Theatre the weekend of March 15,…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:20PMThat shouldn’t cost her, right? It was great to hear, late last month, that Chicagoan Angela Jackson has been chosen as the new Illinois poet laureate. Great b…
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