Innocence, youth and love can seem the perfect ingredients for romance. But as Giuseppe Verdi’s 173-year-old opera Rigoletto reveals, they can also combine to create a tragic cocktail for disaster. Lyric Opera opened its new season Saturday night with this most enduring of opera classics. One that owes its longevity as much to the mysteries …
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Paul Slade Smith’s political comedy The Outsider has to be one of the slyest, stealthiest creations to come down to pike in recent memory. Now playing in Glen Ellyn’s Playhouse Theatre on the College of DuPage campus, it distills contemporary politics to its essence and makes us smile and laugh in the process. The story …
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In the seven counties comprising northeastern Illinois, including Chicago’s Cook County, there were slightly more than a million and a half residents over the age of 50 between 2018 and 2022. That data comes from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and offers pertinent insight. It acts as a useful measure of the number of …
The Unflinching Wisdom of Mike Royko Returns in One Man Show at the Chopin Read More »
The best things in life really can come in small packages and [title of show], a little musical about making a musical fits that bill to a tee. Now playing at PrideArts in Lakeview, the show originated nearly twenty ago when two friends got together to do something they always dreamed of but never mustered …