In 1936, a brash, young, Shepherd Mead, fresh out of Washington University, started his first job in the mail room at New York advertising agency, Benton & Bowles. He rose within the ranks, becoming a […]
A young, cheerful, sober Edgar Allen Poe, a student at the University of Virginia founded by Thomas Jefferson, visits Monticello, Jefferson’s Virginia estate, on the last night of Jefferson’s life, and walks out a somber, […]
For their Summer 2017 production, The Comrades present “In The Wake” at the Greenhouse Theater Center. The Comrades is a non-equity, Chicago-based theater company founded in 2006. It’s past productions, “Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love,” […]
Robert James Waller’s 1992 romance novel, “The Bridges of Madison County,” was a sensation that remained on the “New York Times” Best Seller List for 164 consecutive weeks. It was adapted into a movie, starring […]
Since 1979, City Lit Theater Company has been Chicago’s go-to company for stage adaptations of literary material, and original modern plays with a literary bent. In its current season, City Lit has tackled adaptations of […]
What is Al Capone’s connection to Holy Name Cathedral? What is inside the onion dome of the Hotel Intercontinental Chicago? Who started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871? Why was Chicago named Chicago? You can […]
Picture it – Chicago, 2017 – four men, David Cerda, Ed Jones, AJ Wright, and Adrian Hadlock, play four of the most beloved senior women in American pop culture, “Dorothy Zbornak,” “Rose Nylund,” “Blanche Devereaux,” […]
She might not have “Bette Davis Eyes,” or her stinging sarcasm, but actress Jessica Sherr packed her portrayal of the legendary actress in her one-woman show, “Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies,” with a lot of the dreams, […]
For an energetic opening to its 2017 season, Music Theater Works performs “Candide,” a delightful cross between a classic Broadway-style musical and a comedic operetta, based on the humorous Eighteenth Century satire, “Candide, ou L’Optimisme,” […]
Monday night, an appreciative audience in Evanston was treated to a free multimedia exploration of space, time, gravity and astronomy set to music courtesy of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA). […]
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