Chicago Opera Theater opened its 46th season in bold fashion Saturday night, presenting what was billed as the Chicago premiere of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta,” which bowed in 1892. What’…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:30AMThe Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the Prince Charitable Trusts and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, will invest $24.3 million over the n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMThe most telling moment in Richard Lewis’ opening night set at Zanies on Wednesday evening came at the end, after he had told his last quip. Having stepped down from the stage, Lewis didn�…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AM“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Richard Lewis!” With those words, a shaggy-haired, 30-something comic takes the stage at Zanies on North Wells Street, offers a quick bow and scans a seemingly…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMThe arts, humanities and letters in Illinois would be deeply injured by the Trump administration's proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Hum…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:57PMA cash infusion of more than $6 million is heading to Chicago's arts community. For the first time, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will direct all of its Ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PMA cash infusion of more than $6 million is heading to Chicago's arts community. For the first time, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will direct all of its Mac…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:01AMIt was a three-and-half-hour marathon of songs — some indelible, some forgettable, all sharing at least one rarefied trait: Each appeared in a Tony Award-winning musical.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMCarol Adams, president and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History, will retire on Dec. 31, according to an announcement from the museum. Adams joined the institution on Nov. 9…
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