Monday, September 30, 2019
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 03:29PMFriday, September 20, 2019
Acres 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 01:17PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building
Hello, global visitors to the third Chicago Architecture Biennial. Welcome!…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, September 12, 2019
Music 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 02:57PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Theater 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 07:00AMSaturday, June 15, 2019
In 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 05:10PMFriday, May 31, 2019
But 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 03:55PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The 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 12:00PMFriday, April 26, 2019
It'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 05:00PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Lyric 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 01:39PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
The 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.
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SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Neo-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 08:08PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Russ 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 …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:42PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Surely 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…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:52AM 
