Along with rare visits by Parsons Dance and Twyla Tharp’s dance company, there’s this year’s collaboration between the Joffrey and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And if you time it right, you can see them all.
Category: Entertainment
Review: ‘The Last Five Years’ on Broadway stumbles with its casting
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren both may be talented, but they never connect as the couple we watch in Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical.
Photos: Greek Independence Day Parade
Chicago’s annual Greek Independence Day Parade took place in Greektown on April 6, 2025. The event commemorates Greece’s independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Hollywood lands a much-needed box office hit with ‘A Minecraft Movie’
Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year’s box office deficit.
Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch says City of Lights Center project ‘pretty much dead’
On election night and in an interview with The Beacon-News on Thursday, Laesch laid out plans for his incoming administration, including the future of projects such as the City of Lights Center, changes at City Hall and more.
Review: Canellakis and a mixed CSO concert is a reminder of the orchestra’s staffing challenges
Let’s hear it for substitute musicians. Without them, many a Chicago Symphony concert this year so far would have been impossible — including Thursday’s performance of “Canellakis Conducts Rachmaninov.”
What to do around Chicago: Parade in Greektown, ‘La La Land in Concert’ and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Rosemont
Also around the area this weekend, Franz Ferdinand plays the Vic and a former director of the Human Rights Watch speaks as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Chicago Latino Film Festival opens this weekend, with indelible ‘Memories’ and a multitude of stories
In “Memories of a Burning Body,” featured in the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, several women’s stories become one.
Column: Years ago, Brett Neveu’s ‘Eric LaRue’ unnerved Chicago audiences. Now it’s a Michael Shannon movie.
Hundreds of school shootings after Brett Neveu’s “Eric LaRue” made its Chicago stage entrance, Michael Shannon takes the story to the screen.
‘Pulse’ review: Netflix attempts its own version of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Woe to the medical drama premiering in the wake of “The Pitt.” Viewers who prefer “Grey’s” may not care