140 stories by "Aaron Hunt"
RECOMMENDED Right or wrong, many put off family time until summer. Just as the weather gets warmer, we pack up the kids and jack up the credit cards in order to go somewhere else. Filament T…
RECOMMENDED Playwright Jason Mitchell's farcical "The Boys Upstairs" sets up like a pitcher of vodka lemonades on a hot Sunday. Three college friends celebrate clothes, swanky parties, witty…
The making of a new musical is as daunting as a jigsaw puzzle. The challenge can be ratcheted up when all of the pieces seem to be the same color: a blue sky melting into a mountain stream. …
RECOMMENDED Lyric Opera of Chicago has found a formula that comes closer to a successful collaboration between the resources of a major opera company and the magic of musical theatre. This &…
RECOMMENDED James Goldman's 1966 period piece with contemporary colloquialisms has played the world over, buoyed by the success of the 1968 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock oratorio "Evita" sings a story that never tires in its retelling: the disenfranchised individual, working with their particular skill set and virtually on their ow…
RECOMMENDED Perhaps best known for the heroine's waltz song, which arrives in the first act and isn't quite equaled for sparkling melody thereafter, there is still much music to savor in thi…
RECOMMENDED Shakespeare's problematic play "The Tempest" is a heady undertaking for any theater company. Never mind the need to replicate an onstage shipwreck. Culminating in the playwright'…
RECOMMENDED “Far From Heaven,” the acclaimed 2002 film starring the translucent Julianne Moore, was penned and directed by Todd Haynes and shot using the carefully composed color…
By Aaron Hunt Lyric has announced its electric, eclectic 2016/17 season. If you're already an operagoer, this is a major opportunity to put seldom-heard notches in your production belt. If n…
RECOMMENDED Memory is dampened by medical advances, giving succor to those who want to believe AIDS is now a manageable disease. With a generation erased, who is left to remember and tell th…
RECOMMENDED "Nabucco" established Verdi's preeminence as an operatic composer not only with its winding melodies and passionate declamations but because it struck a nerve with a populace emb…
RECOMMENDED "The Duchess of Malfi" is not a perfect play. The plot jolts, character motivations are incoherent, it is occasionally verbose when it should move like lightening and vice-versa.…
