Elgin’s End of Summer Bash Saturday will be a unique experience for at least one of the night’s artists, hosting the city’s first drone show. “I can definitely say I’ve never played a drone show before,” said child music artist Justin Roberts. Sounds great. The drones are illuminated and can …
Read More »Farrell and Foxx as dogs hunting for laughs
You know how obscene comedies are. Hit and miss. One person’s mutiny of rhetoric is another person’s jaw-locking and existential curiosity exercise: just why is this not working for me? But all the way why was i born I guess that’s a bit of an exaggeration. However, the nonsense-talking, garden-dwarf …
Read More »Field dance designer harmonizes well with Tempel Lipizzans
Melanie Michalak started dancing, playing instruments and riding horses when she was young. It’s no surprise that all three passions led him to a career as a dressage musical freestyle designer. Michalak, whose work can be seen as part of the new “Celebrating 65th Anniversary: Dancing Through Decades” featuring Tempel …
Read More »American theater giant takes the stage in August Wilson: A Life
Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”, Huntington Theater Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her seat for a pre-Broadway test performance, one of the regional theater stops for the new pre-Broadway play. Hartigan will never forget what he …
Read More »Goodman Theater staging pre-Broadway ‘Garden of Good and Evil’
Fresh from the success of “The Who’s Tommy,” a musical now liked headed to Broadway, the Goodman Theater has switched gears for next summer and will stage the pre-Broadway tryout of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” a musical based on the phenomenally successful 1994 nonfiction book by …
Read More »Field dance designer harmonizes well with Tempel Lipizzans
Melanie Michalak started dancing and riding horses when she was young. This led the Tinley Park resident to a career as a dressage musical freestyle designer. “I received training on the elements of discipline as well as the elements of music,” he said. “A happy marriage of music to horses. …
Read More »The new 312 Comedy Festival is coming to Chicago this fall
A new comedy festival led by Nate Bargatze, Russell Peters, John Crist, Nicole Byer and more is coming to Chicago this fall. The first 312 Comedy Festivals will play at multiple venues, including the Chicago Theatre, Allstate Arena, Rosemont Theater, and Zanies Comedy Club locations. The currently announced shows will …
Read More »Phylicia Rashad will direct next season at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Phylicia Rashad will direct a world premiere play at the Steppenwolf Theater next season, the theater announced on Wednesday. The two-time Tony Award winner will direct Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Purpose,” which is scheduled to star alongside Steppenwolf community members Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis and Jon Michael Hill. The play, which is …
Read More »Secret Invasion’s Production Documentary Coming to Disney+
Disney+, Secret InvasionA mini-series where she plans to reveal behind-the-scenes secrets Assembled: Concealed Invasion ConstructionPreparing to publish. Disney Plus InformerAccording to Disney’s streaming platform, Marvel Studios’ Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion will be unveiled on September 20. The Making of Secret Invasion features several in-depth interviews with the cast …
Read More »Dime Gallery’s “BOP!” the exhibition takes us on a collage adventure
If you’re lucky enough to have a teacher with artistic inclinations or a parent who wants to keep you from watching TV or surfing the Internet, you probably created a collage when you were younger. Whatever your memories and whatever the definition of collage is, “BOP! Adventures in Collage” at …
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