Chance encounters can remind you of things you’ve lost. They can also seem like gifts. One of those chance finds, For the Love of Lyric, a concert presented by Chicago’s esteemed Lyric Opera house was both. Conceived by the Lyric’s creative consultant and project’s advisor, celebrated soprano Renée Fleming, and slipped on line earlier this …
We’re accustomed to seeing distinguished architecture in a certain way. Generally, when we think of award winning buildings, we envision something gleaming, sleek and soaring. Something that makes a statement about power or prestige. Structures that exude success. Buildings that are often 20th and 21st century temples of commerce and accomplishment. A surprising and absorbing …
Kiki & Herb, the sensational renegade cabaret act that broke up for 8 years before reuniting briefly in 2016, make the kind of entertainment that glues itself to your brain’s pleasure points. Nowhere near ordinary, and delightfully unpredictable, they’re everything they claim to be; subversive, boldly aggressive and gloriously original. The Stage Network, an arts …
The Totally Fake Latino News with Culture Clash may be wrapping up its virtual run with the La Jolla Playhouse soon so this would be a good time to drop in and catch some top rate comedy from a point of view that’s been much too neglected. Practicing their very own brand of social commentary …
Visionaries see an obstacle and innovate around it. Two of them in the theater world, Igor Golyak and Wang Chong, show how it’s done. Both are directors who found a way to make remarkably successful live theater virtually. Golyak’s Natasha Banina vs the State became a New York Times critic pick over the summer and …