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September 10, 2023: A date that will surprise the audience. That night, at the Buell Theater at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and her date took a stroll early in Act 2 of the touring production of “Beetlejuice: The Musical.” This happened at the …

The opening bars of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” are as visceral as in opera: the icy clang of tremolo strings, followed by a full-breasted, long woodwind chorale. For those listening, that is. There doesn’t seem to be much going on for hearing-impaired audiences during the overture to Lyric Opera’s “The …

If Roy Wood Jr. were allowed to make a change as commissioner of Major League Baseball, he would encourage more at-bats and personality in the game. “It’s a simple change,” he said while sitting in Section 124 of Wrigley Field during the Chicago Cubs-Arizona Diamondbacks game on Sept. 9. “I …

Even if you don’t follow fashion, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington were pop culture fixtures and household names throughout the 1990s. No other group of fashion show and print models has captured the public imagination quite like this since. “Supermodels,” a four-part docuseries streaming on Apple …

LOS ANGELES — Bijou Phillips has filed for divorce from Danny Masterson, days after the former “That ’70s Show” star was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for two rape convictions. Actor Phillips, 43, filed a petition in Santa Barbara Superior Court on Monday to end his nearly …

Ticket sales for the highly anticipated meet-and-greet with best-selling author Rebecca Yarros at Anderson’s Bookshop were suspended Tuesday after the Naperville store’s ticket partner was cyber-attacked, employees said. As of Tuesday evening, tickets for the event scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 11 are still available, but all sales are closed until …

74-year-old author Pearl Cleage is about to have a moment in Chicago. Next week, Goodman Theater Opening the first Chicago production of Cleage’s 2010 game, “The Nacirema Society”, an article about black debutantes in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. He leaves as he prepares to walk towards Selma. Various …

Hopes were always high for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” The studio knew the movie was great and commercial. But no one in the industry expected a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season to earn over $900 million at the box office. After an early …

For those who once wandered the city nights to local clubs, theaters and various performance venues, the name Denise La Grassa should ring a pleasant bell and perhaps transport you to a bygone scene and the echo and exuberant atmosphere of her music, poetry. presence Among many places, I can …

When a bright-eyed valedictorian finds tuition at Harvard University inadequate, the next logical step is to open an underground business selling edibles from his family’s bakery, right? At least protagonist Jane Huang’s “Baked! Deepak Kumar and Jord Liu’s sweet, fun coming-of-age show The Musical. Although billed as a developmental production, …