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Chicago’s Deeply Rooted Dance Theater to Perform at Millennium Park

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Deeply Rooted Dance Theater resumes live in-person performances, Wednesday, August 25th at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion.  Presenting “A Deeply Rooted Evening for Chicago’s Healing: GOSHEN”, concept and music for the performance were created by Grammy Award winning producer, composer and gospel artist Donald Lawrence.  In addition to featuring dance styles that have been emblematic of …

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Still Time to Catch Portrait Fever at the Art Institute

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Certainly former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are people who are “admired and idealized for their courage and outstanding achievements”.  Combined with their many other noteworthy attributes, the mantle of hero fits both husband and wife comfortably. Well understanding the significance of their historic achievements, the couple takes every opportunity to advance the …

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Last Week to See Memorable Theater: Ride Share

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Ride Share, a thrillingly beautiful work written by Reginald Edmund and co-produced by Glencoe’s Writer’s Theatre and Black Lives, Black Words International Project, doesn’t pull its punches.  Using the playwright’s personal experience as a Uber driver in our hyper-gig economy, Ride Share can legitimately be called autobiographical.  But within minutes of the first lines being …

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Ayanna Woods Closes Out Eighth Blackbird’s Sterling Live Streaming Series

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As we move further and further away from the isolating days of the Covid-driven lockdown, the more likely we are to forget some of the things that got us through those long often anxious days.  Work and school filled a lot of voids but there were few options for activating crucial endorphins that result in …

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Eighth Blackbird Concert Threads Nature into Music

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In music, like any other creative medium, imagination can obliterate pre-conceived notions of the possible.  Through its series of live streamed concerts that were created as a response to Covid, Eighth Blackbird’s Creative Artist Workshop (CAW) has been reminding us of the many forms excellent music can take.  Since CAW began its entertainment offerings, showcasing …

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A Bracing and Brilliant Look at the Sinking of the Titantic

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Commenting on a segment about modern air travel, a television news host recently stated that although she was not afraid of death, she did not want to die “terrified”.  Titanic, (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912), now streaming from Chicago’s Court Theater, can be said to be a story about how 1490 people …

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