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

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:  …

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Porchlight’s Anything Goes Keeps the Magic Firmly Intact

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 …

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The Celestial Beauty of Radical Clay

Art’s ability to jolt the imagination and defy assumptions makes it almost as captivating as nature in its splendor and variety.  A new exhibit at …

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Young Playwrights Festival Strikes Gold in Chicago High Schools

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 …

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Chef Christian Hunter and Atelier Setting a High Bar

The Artist Studio may have sounded too confusing for a restaurant so they settled on Atelier; which has the same meaning in French.  After experiencing …

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MTW’s Shrek an Ogre to Admire

Judging from the crowd attending Shrek: The Musical at Skokie’s North Center for the Performing Arts, a certain green ogre has garnered an appeal well …

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Jazzy Nutcracker an Achievement Writ Large

For purists, there’s only one version of a classic that’s worthy of widespread regard and admiration.   Tchaikovsky’s 1892 lighter, more whimsical adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s …

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Web-series Delivers Humor From a Different Slant and Through a Different Voice

Long noted for the excellence of its live dramatic work, Congo Square Theatre Company branched out and began offering digital content in 2020.   Partly a …

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Chi Town Becomes Tap Town in Winter Wonderland

You don’t ordinarily think of this time of year as a period of discovery, but a concert of dance and music at Harold Washington Cultural …

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