Friday, January 26, 2024
Gioachino 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 12:38PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
When 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 12:57PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Move 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 10:17AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Lyric 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 09:41AMFriday, September 16, 2022
It’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 02:09PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Starting 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 10:20AMMonday, September 12, 2022
Thanks 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 05:32PMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Last 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 10:00AMWednesday, August 3, 2022
When 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 10:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
So, 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 11:50AMWednesday, July 6, 2022
Nothing 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 10:42AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
There’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 04:01PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
They 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 04:21PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Last 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 10:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Regarding 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 10:14AMWednesday, August 4, 2021
"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 10:00AMWednesday, July 7, 2021
In “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 12:00PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Dr. 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 10:20AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
The "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 11:45AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
North 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 11:40AMTuesday, May 25, 2021
The 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 08:18PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Lyric 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 07:00PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
Can 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 10:00AMThursday, May 6, 2021
While 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 03:30PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
The 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 10:30AMWednesday, March 17, 2021
A 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 11:00AMWednesday, February 17, 2021
But 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 11:15AMWednesday, January 6, 2021
The 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 12:20PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
That 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…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMWednesday, November 11, 2020
Her quilts draw upon historic photos and family albums for inspiration.
The first and only time I’ve seen Bisa Butler’s artwork “in the flesh” was at EXP…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PM 
