Lee Colston’s wonderfully unexpectant play, The First Deep Breath, celebrates two things; acceptance and truth. We see very little of either until the end of this meaty story that challenges us to think about how high a regard we hold for these two liberating ideals. The family we’re introduced to is the total opposite of …
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The first moments of Parallel Lives, a new Deeply Rooted Dance Company work performed over the weekend on the Logan Center stage, singe like an electric charge. The music, composed by Evangelos Spanos, pushes and insists as does the solo dancer at the stage’s center. She’s focused, graceful, exact, urgent and transfixing. After helping to …
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You don’t often hear about how enticing the story driving The Light in the Piazza eventually becomes. An unlikely love story viewed from the vantage point of an over protective mother; it’s so consciously refined that Piazza’s core message can be obscured in its romantic beauty. Very much in the way the love between Clara …
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Sometimes that rare occasion arises when “first tastes” takes you both to the old and the new in short order. Late in November, we saw and tasted how three accomplished chefs at two restaurants harnessed their ambition, drive and skill to claim their places at the summit of Chicago’s restaurant hierarchy. Sarah Gruenberg’s Monteverde has …