Perfect evenings of entertainment can come in many forms. The Music Institute of Chicago’s jazz tribute to guitarist Les Paul easily qualifies as one of them. With Russell Malone on guitar, Eric Hochberg on bass, the drum talent of Samuel Jewell and Tom Vaitsas’s impressive piano versatility, the building blocks for a memorable performance were …
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Masks or no masks, returning to the Auditorium Theater to see live performance felt like being reborn. The venue still requires proof of vaccination and mask wearing but nobody was complaining this past Saturday afternoon. The sense of relief at having entertainment return to the iconic venue ran heavy in the air as did the …
Dance companies of every stripe deserve our admiration simply for celebrating an art form that’s been evolving since the dawn of humankind. Some are led by visionaries whose legacies are now dance dynasties. A swarm of others thrive on innovation and partnership to enable dancers to do what they were born to do and to …
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