One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American play and make it feel like it was written about all Americans.
Review: This ‘Our Town’ Broadway revival opens Thornton Wilder’s story up to everyone
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Southland casino tentative set to open Nov. 11, Homewood mayor says
Wind Creek said the casino, set to open Nov. 11, will feature 1,350 slot machines, 56 table games, buffet and entertainment areas.
‘Piece by Piece’ review: Pharrell Williams’ life gets Lego treatment in lively biopic
Williams is worthy of the outside-the-box treatment, as his innovative productions have helped redefine hip hop and stretched the genre’s boundaries.
Who needs fast and furious when you can go slow and low? The art and obsession of lowriders comes to Navy Pier
In Art Martin’s driveway sits a 1947 Chevy Fleetmaster, painted kandy brandywine. The curves go on for days. He put too much into that car, he says.
Column: Encouraging signs for the 2024 Chicago International Film Festival — and 10 movies to get you started
The more uncertainty the business of film must weather, the more necessary a city’s film festivals become. To me, anyway. Maybe not to you, at least not yet, or not anymore. You may have eased out of the habit of moviegoing sometime around March 2020 and made your peace and your pandemic adjustment with streaming. […]
Review: ‘The Apprentice’ has Sebastian Stan as a young Trump on the rise, mentored by Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn
Is it just my imagination, or is “The Apprentice” a pretty interesting movie? Less than a month before a U.S. presidential election, you’d expect an 11th-hour Trump biopic (which premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival) to settle for cheap smears and a bunch of propaganda. Such stuff is hardly restricted to the […]
Removing books from libraries often takes debate. But there’s a quieter way.
Thousands of books have been removed from schools and libraries over the past several years, often accompanied by stormy public meetings and acrimonious debate. But there is a quieter way books have been pulled from libraries — a process called weeding.
Radio’s ‘Dizz’ Blackful busy ‘adding my own flavor’ to Park Forest venue
Former Bad Boy Radio DJ Victor Blackful is set to open his second season of booking shows at Nathan Manilow Theatre in Park Forest.
‘Disclaimer’ review: Cate Blanchett and more notes on a scandal
In “Disclaimer,” a respected documentary filmmaker sees her life turned upside down and inside out when she’s gifted a novel based on an anxiety-riddled secret she’s kept for the last 20 years.
Meet the choir putting climate justice in its concerts, including ‘Malhaar: A Requiem for Water’
EcoVoice’s programming reflects co-founder Kirsten Hedegaard’s belief that music can be a powerful way to spread a message. Its next concert is at Loyola University.