Summer translates to festival season and their variety keeps growing with every cycle of the calendar. From colossal neighborhood bashes featuring live bands and copious brew, to prestigious art fairs and tributes to ribs and hamburgers; every year their variety keeps magnifying. Four years ago, Mandala South Asian Performing Arts launched its own festival …
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Because of its power, there must be an untold or unknown story behind flamenco. Rarely do you get a satisfying explanation on the true source of its passion. Or why there’s such an undercurrent of defiance running so freely through it. Let’s not even go into how proud it reads. A pride that bleeds right …
Opening last week at the Goodman, Life After proves musical theater can tell serious stories just as compellingly as straight drama. Musicals with sober or unconventional themes aren’t rare. This year’s Tonys saw two, Paradise Square and A Strange Loop vying for top awards. Musicals about death and grief however can qualify as unusual which …
Grandma’s Jukebox, playing now at Black Ensemble Theatre (BET), deserves a lot of love for the way it prizes a shero we never meet. One of those rare forces whoradiate purpose, Grandma Betty has just passed away. We meet her family gathered in the living room of her home following her services as they come …
On a glorious spring morning along Chicago’s magnificent lakefront, a touching ribbon cutting tied a location to a movement. AIDS Garden Chicago, a 2.5 acre swatch of lakefront park land, was dedicated June 2 to the memory of the thousands of Chicagoans who’ve died from the scourge of AIDS. The AIDS epidemic began its sweep …