39 stories by "Steve Johnson"
The pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests seems to have brought arts organizations to a moment of reckoning.
Nationwide effort aims to push Congress to pass pandemic relief RESTART Act.
As spinoffs go, "Hamilton: The Exhibition" " a U.S. history showcase derived from a play about a treasury secretary, mounted in a sprawling, spare-no-expense rendering in a sort of airplane …
Putting up a standalone exhibition derived from a work of entertainment doesn't happen every day in Chicago. This leaves few points of comparison for the forthcoming "Hamilton: The Exhibitio…
Art on theMart, the fledgling video projection project on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart, is celebrating Chicago theater with the second round of video art it will display, the org…
The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His "experimental restaging" of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American pla…
The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His "experimental restaging" of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American pla…
It's been a bumpy ride for Trevor Noah. When he took over "The Daily Show" in September 2015, he was the interloper, the slick young " and let's not forget, foreign " guy getting the job tha…
A funny thing on happened on the way to Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher's triumphant fall comedy tour that would have been supported, in a sense, by the upcoming second season of the marri…
"The Daily Show" is coming to Chicago's Athenaeum Theatre for a week of shows in October, Comedy Central announced Tuesday. "'The Daily Show' Undesked Chicago 2017: Let's Do This Before It G…
The Newberry Library had a special opportunity " a shot, as it were " and it was not going to miss it. With a certain musical confection about Alexander Hamilton having its first non-New Yor…
Presenters at 2016's Chicago Ideas Week range from an astronomer to a soccer superstar to a hot-tempered Hollywood agent who happens to be related to Chicago's mayor, but one thing they have…
For his latest art project, Theaster Gates is bringing together music, museums and collegiate athletics. The Chicago artist has a history of being interdisciplinary, but boundaries will get …
Michael Flatley returns Wednesday to the city where his empire began, for a "Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games" show at the Chicago Theatre that Flatley says will be his last in Chicago as …
Michael Flatley returns Wednesday to the city where his empire began, for a "Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games" show at the Chicago Theatre that Flatley says will be his last in Chicago as …
If writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio? Discover the answer when Ira Glass brings an unlikely dance-radio storytelli…
If writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio?
Chicagoans will get a chance to discover the answer when Ira Glass brings a…
If writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio? Chicagoans will get a chance to discover the answer when Ira Glass brings an…
You can let the planned appearances of musician Elvis Costello and well-known comics Patton Oswalt and Aasif Mandvi fool you into thinking the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival might be leani…
It would almost be enough to have your cellphone ring and the identifying text say there's an incoming call from "Abraham Lincoln," or "Benito Juarez," or "Cloud Gate." That's a screenshot w…
After a ten-year run during which he won accolades for his tear-up-the-cue-cards style of hosting, Craig Ferguson left CBS "The Late Late Show" last December. But he's kept busy hosting a ga…
The fall Chicago Humanities Festival has an organizing theme, the festival announced Tuesday, and it is one Charles Foster Kane and the ancient Greeks might agree is important: Citizens.
Whatever Cecily Strong was going to say about President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, there was no way it would sting as much as what he inadver…
Long before Lollapalooza became a fixture in Grant Park, long before Riot Fest and Pitchfork Music Festival and the myriad other concentrations of cultural events that have come to define th…
Redmoon Theater's attempt to celebrate the Great Chicago Fire on the Chicago River Saturday fizzled when the houses it had built on boats wouldn't light. No floating inferno. No spectacle. T…
