Wednesday, September 23, 2020
The pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests seems to have brought arts organizations to a moment of reckoning.
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
As spinoffs go, “Hamilton: The Exhibition” — a U.S. history showcase derived from a play about a treasury secretary, mounted in a sprawling, spare-no-expense rendering in a sort of air…
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Putting up a standalone exhibition derived from a work of entertainment doesn’t happen every day in Chicago. This leaves few points of comparison for the forthcoming “Hamilton: The Exhib…
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Art on theMart, the fledgling video projection project on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart, is celebrating Chicago theater with the second round of video art it will display, the org…
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The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His “experimental restaging” of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMThe performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His “experimental restaging” of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American…
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It’s been a bumpy ride for Trevor Noah. When he took over “The Daily Show” in September 2015, he was the interloper, the slick young — and let’s not forget, foreign — guy getting…
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A funny thing on happened on the way to Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s triumphant fall comedy tour that would have been supported, in a sense, by the upcoming second season of the mar…
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“The Daily Show” is coming to Chicago’s Athenaeum Theatre for a week of shows in October, Comedy Central announced Tuesday. “’The Daily Show’ Undesked Chicago 2017: Let’s Do Th…
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The Newberry Library had a special opportunity — a shot, as it were — and it was not going to miss it. With a certain musical confection about Alexander Hamilton having its first non-New…
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Presenters at 2016's Chicago Ideas Week range from an astronomer to a soccer superstar to a hot-tempered Hollywood agent who happens to be related to Chicago's mayor, but one thing they have…
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For his latest art project, Theaster Gates is bringing together music, museums and collegiate athletics. The Chicago artist has a history of being interdisciplinary, but boundaries will get …
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Michael Flatley returns Wednesday to the city where his empire began, for a "Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games" show at the Chicago Theatre that Flatley says will be his last in Chicago as …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PMMichael Flatley returns Wednesday to the city where his empire began, for a "Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games" show at the Chicago Theatre that Flatley says will be his last in Chicago as …
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If writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio? Discover the answer when Ira Glass brings an unlikely dance-radio storytelli…
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If writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio?
Chicagoans will get a chance to discover the answer when Ira Glass brings a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:40PMIf writing about music is, as the saying goes, like dancing about architecture, then what is dancing about radio? Chicagoans will get a chance to discover the answer when Ira Glass brings an…
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You can let the planned appearances of musician Elvis Costello and well-known comics Patton Oswalt and Aasif Mandvi fool you into thinking the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival might be leani…
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It would almost be enough to have your cellphone ring and the identifying text say there's an incoming call from "Abraham Lincoln," or "Benito Juarez," or "Cloud Gate." That's a screenshot w…
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After a ten-year run during which he won accolades for his tear-up-the-cue-cards style of hosting, Craig Ferguson left CBS "The Late Late Show" last December. But he's kept busy hosting a ga…
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The fall Chicago Humanities Festival has an organizing theme, the festival announced Tuesday, and it is one Charles Foster Kane and the ancient Greeks might agree is important: Citizens.
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Whatever Cecily Strong was going to say about President Barack Obama at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, there was no way it would sting as much as what he inadverte…
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Long before Lollapalooza became a fixture in Grant Park, long before Riot Fest and Pitchfork Music Festival and the myriad other concentrations of cultural events that have come to define th…
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Redmoon Theater's attempt to celebrate the Great Chicago Fire on the Chicago River Saturday fizzled when the houses it had built on boats wouldn't light. No floating inferno. No spectacle. T…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PMA circus is, in essence, a variety show, Ed Sullivan under a peaked tent. One act after another spills out into the center ring, and the audience cheers it on or doesn't have long to wait fo…
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Did you ever wonder why comedian Jerry Seinfeld is still touring regularly despite his incomprehensible wealth? He is, and he will play Rosemont Theatre this fall, the venue announced Friday…
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It's a fine fall for comedy in the Chicago area as the latest stand-up renaissance continues. Below are some of the leading shows of the season, and we don't even mention the steady fare at …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMBefore he found comedy, Kyle Kinane was in a Chicago punk band, The Grand Marquis, with some of the friends he grew up with in west suburban Addison.
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Even before Tuesday, a handful of speakers at this fall's Chicago Humanities Festival had been announced: comedian Paula Poundstone, writer Colm Toibin, former Brown University president Rut…
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