Tearing Lady Gaga’s ticket. Seeing a tenor dropped in Tosca. Grooving to Mavis Staples from the rafters. These are the magical moments that happen with live performance. They are also just another Tuesday night for The Saints, the quiet backbone of Chicago theater that’s never stopped working, lockdown be damned. The Saints is the only […]
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Is public radio a charity?
When your donors are also beneficiaries, calling yourself a charity is a bit of a stretch.
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MacArthur Foundation shifts focus to a few ‘big bets’
The “genius grants” remain, but the foundation is narrowing its focus to a few select causes.
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The Lucas museum brings a vanity project to the lakefront
Whatever else George Lucas’s proposed museum is, it’s a vanity project, something its predecessors were not.
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A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot/The Dimmed Heart
Many young Chicago theater companies hope to compensate for deficiencies in acting and directing with brash, experimental styles. But Pentimento Pictures is not one of them. The members of this spin-off of Theatre of the Reconstruction have the wisdom and maturity to avoid all that. Their deft rendition of Tennessee Williams’s perfectly constructed short play, […]