More in Chicago:
- Celebrating Chicago Theatre Week—a year into the pandemicThis year's lineup offers a smorgasbord of online options; plus honoring Felicia P. Fields and remembering Edward S. Weil Jr. and Sally Banes As the numbers of the vaccinated grow and the icicles melt and crash, the twin angst-inducing events of pandemic shutdown and plain old everyday cabin fever seem to recede like the snow […]
- Celebrate everyday Black heroes with 28 Days of GreatnessArtist Brandon Breaux’s Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month. As the world shut down early last year, Brandon Breaux began questioning the intention of his artistic practice. Art began to feel like a luxury to him, and he didn’t feel particularly compelled to make new work.…
- The Joffrey unveils a new BoléroYoshihisa Arai choreographs a world premiere for Maurice Ravel's hugely popular composition. Winter in a pandemic. The roads obstructed with snow.…
- Second City finds a buyer and its instructors form a unionPrivate equity firm ZMC acquires the comedy institution, while AICE advocates for representation. This has been a helluva week for Second City news. On Wednesday, Financial Times first published reports of an imminent sale of the comedy behemoth to private equity firm ZMC, owned by Strauss Zelnick.…
- Fillet of Solo reminds us that no one is aloneThe annual festival of storytelling offers the freshest catches for COVID days. In the Before Times—before the Moth, before the Stoop, before the phrase "live lit" was even coined, much less a thing—Sharon Evans's Live Bait Theater was HQ for Chicago storytellers. At least it was for a frenetic month every year, as legions of […]
