Chicago Theaters Schedule Tonight, This Weekend And Later In 2019

More in Chicago:

• Still ghoulin’ after all these years
  A sven-tillating conversation with Chicago’s legendary horror host, Rich Koz, on 40 years of Svengoolie, celebrity fans, and BERWYN! Local television legend Rich Koz doesn't need an introduction to most of our readers, especially when he is dressed as his character Svengoolie, wearing his classic raccoon-eyed ghoulish face paint and top hat.…
• Jane Eyre brings a feminist vision to the Joffrey—but only to a point
  Cathy Marston's staging features brilliant duets, but her take on Charlotte Brontë's classic has some limitations. Among the great pleasures of 19th-century novels are their length, their breadth, the deep dives into characters’ lives and into the social fabric of the time. It’s almost suicidal to try to stage these stories in just over two […]
• Arts—and aquatic—activities for kids during the CPS strike
  Classes and workshops cover music, dance, film, theater, and more "I hope this strike don't last too long, CPS," a young mother announces to the bus she’s just flagged down as she shepherds her two school-age sons on board. "Every day they're not in school they gotta come to work with me." A few blocks […]
• Luisa Miller is gorgeously sung and giddily age blind
  Lyric opens a multiyear exploration of early Verdi with this 1849 opera. Lyric Opera is launching a multiyear exploration of the early works of Giuseppe Verdi with its current production of the 1849 melodrama Luisa Miller. “Early Verdi” is a snappy title for this endeavor, and Verdi was writing beautiful music before his more familiar […]
• See the Bronzeville church that is the real birthplace of gospel
  Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, one of more than 350 Open House Chicago sites this weekend, is significant musically and architecturally. With more than 350 sites to choose from during the Chicago Architecture Center's free Open House Chicago event this weekend, it can be a challenge to decide which to visit. Here's a suggestion: Bronzeville's Ebenezer […]