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Month: January 2024

Elmhurst Art Museum’s Jazz Drenched Exhibition Splendidly Unveils How Arts Converge

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A newly opened two-part exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum looks into how profoundly one art form can impact and influence another.  A Love Supreme:  Norman Teague, chronicles how John Coltrane’s 1964 jazz masterpiece has and continues to inspire pioneering Chicago designer and educator, Norman Teague.  A Love Supreme:  McCormick House Reimagined expands the dialogue …

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Porchlight’s Anything Goes Keeps the Magic Firmly Intact

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There are a lot of things this world could do with more of and that includes Cole Porter musicals.  Porchlight Music Theatre must have sensed that void when it decided to launch its 90th anniversary production of one of Porter’s timeless jewels, Anything Goes.  Now playing at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, the …

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Young Playwrights Festival Strikes Gold in Chicago High Schools

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Arming each new generation with a viable education will always be the overriding mission of our schools.  While fulfilling that goal, schools influence another important objective.  They help prepare students to become engaged, responsible and competent adults.  By any measure, the scale of just one of these goals is massive.  Combined, they are daunting.  A …

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