Artists still run Chicago
The Hyde Park Art Center is bringing back the spaces we've all missed. In a recent survey published in the Singapore-based paper the Straits Times, "artist" was …
The Hyde Park Art Center is bringing back the spaces we've all missed. In a recent survey published in the Singapore-based paper the Straits Times, "artist" was …
For more than 70 years, starting in 1947 as a student at Roosevelt University, Segal presented the world's greatest jazz musicians in rented hovels, rundown showrooms, dilapidated hotels and…
One solution that all five instrumentalists opposed was changing the orchestral world's blind audition process in which candidates try out behind curtains or screens. In a July article in th…
For the Love of Lyric will stream September 13.
Chicago Children's Theatre has produced a digital puppet show based on the book "Doll Face Has a Party!"
Lyric Opera of Chicago will open the company's reimagined fall season with For the Love of Lyric, a virtual concert from the stage of the Lyric Opera House, on Sunday, September 13, availabl…
An Old Master show for our times centres on the artist's restored-to-gleaming 'Assumption of the Virgin'
"I'm starting to create a queer theater company that is modern and right now," says PrideArts' newly appointed artistic director Donterrio Johnson. The post As Chicago's PrideArts Faces a Re…
Living near the theater district during the Broadway shutdown, photographer and performer Matthew Stocke has been haunted walking past the empty palaces sitting in repose, waiting for the li…
The Loop vs. Chicago's "real" neighborhoods was always a false conflict, and gots us no where. With empty sidewalks, absent arts and struggling small businesses, this whole city needs help.
Zoom past the COVID doldrums with these August workshops. Shadow and light. Wood and paper.…
Zanies Comedy Club reopens on Wells Street with COVID-19 precautions and stand-up comedy.
Chicago has been frequently touted as a writer's town; a place where writers can work on their craft and thrive.…
Today, some love for the Second City, on the anniversary of Chicago's worst disaster ever in terms of loss of life. You might think such stories out of our wheelhouse, but as with similar…
Netflix has shared a first look at Mark Rylance, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Jeremy Strong, J.C. MacKenzie, and Danny Flahery in Aaron Sorkin's new film…
For various Midwest comedy groups, the pandemic the pandemic created an unexpected set of challenges for an art form that needs human interaction to thrive.
A very incomplete guide on what to read (or listen to) now from Chicago's theater scene. So you can't go to the theater because (gestures weakly toward everythin…
Howard Reich: "Should the organization succeed in presenting live events, it will deliver us from the current deluge of online performances by every musician who happens to own a smart phone…
You might argue that furloughs are inevitable, given the inability of theaters to perform indoors in front of more than 50 people under current city and state guidelines. But it's not the fu…
Artistic Chicago is hemorrhaging jobs -- from Blue Man Group to the Steppenwolf Theatre: 'We are looking at the decimation of an industry.'
The year-long fellowship for Black Chicago-area artists is aimed at creating lasting relationships between artists and theatres.
A Chicago theater is coming back next weekend --yes, next weekend
Until the theatre returns to the stage, a digital education series, in partnership with University of Chicago, will highlight various classic works.
An all-star line-up of Chicago natives and stars who got their start in the Windy City have come together for a new music video, performing the Blues anthem 'Sweet Home Chicago.'…