The season opener is as much fun as you can have at the opera. Lyric Opera has married pitch-perfect casting to go-for-broke direction in its season opener, The …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:29PMAcres of art and a chance to observe capitalism at its looniest Let’s get right to the important stuff: the hot fashion tip from EXPO Chicago 2019, the big int…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:17PMEndangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building Hello, global visitors to the third Chicago Architecture Biennial. Welcome!…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMusic director Andrew Davis will be succeeded by Enrique Mazzola, in two years Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that music director Andrew Davis will end …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:57PMTheater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community. As this cold, wet June wore on and no schedule had been…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMIn a tour de force, an a cappella trio of women capture the drudgery of factory sewing. Third Eye Theatre Ensemble is offering a labor of love this weekend with …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:10PMBut a program of Stravinsky, Ravel, and Rossini at Symphony Center shows neither to its best advantage. In an interesting experiment this weekend, two of the cit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:55PMThe Lyric’s faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it’s the women who are the stars. Sometime in the 1940s, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMIt'll banish all your memories of English-class torture. Whatever your history with Moby-Dick—even if you were a disgruntled teenager on a forced English class…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PMLyric Opera’s outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories. This is what the bad guys did in WWII: rounded up entire fa…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:39PMThe Chicago theater community got a pair of year-end jolts with December announcements about the demise of Oracle Productions and the near demise of the Hypocrites. …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMNeo-Futurists founder Greg Allen made the surprising announcement today that he's ending the 28-year Chicago run of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind on December 31st. He's doing so in …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:08PMRuss Tutterow was a playwright's "greatest advocate and friend," Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said Monday night, welcoming about 300 members of Chicago's theater community …
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SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 09:37AMSurely no words ever written by any theater critic stirred more local buzz than Michael Billington's 2004 observation in London's Guardian that "Chicago . . . [is] the current theatre capita…
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