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    May 22, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. In 'Roadkill' and 'h.g.,' powerful shows for small audiences

    There's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit," "Lascivious Something," "In the Company of Men" and the not-to-be-missed production of "The Knowledge" at the Steep Theatre, where, as one of my theater-loving Tribune colleagues recently noted, you are plenty close enough to see the veins bulging in the neck of actress Caroline Neff.
    Tribune critic
    There's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit,"...

    Tags: Bucktown, Celebrities, Chicago Cultural Center, Navy Pier, Arts and Culture

    2. May 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. Puppets and fairy tales are part of 'Stages, Sights and Sounds'

    The Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff.
    Tribune reporter
    The Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff. What self-respecting kid will sit still for that?...

    Tags: Entertainment, Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, Sleeping Beauty (movie), Arts and Culture

    3. Apr 23, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Chicago Humanities Festival lets in the Animal

    In announcing its fall programming theme, “Animal: What Makes Us Human,” the Chicago Humanities Festival provides one answer to the question that, for want of a question mark, it doesn't quite pose.
    In announcing its fall programming theme, “Animal: What Makes Us Human,” the Chicago Humanities Festival provides one answer to the question that, for want of a question mark, it doesn't quite pose. The desire and ability to stage an...

    Tags: Festive Events, Customs and Tradition, Autism, Arts and Culture, Hyde Park

    4. Nov 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Stuart Flack leaving Humanities Festival

    The Chicago Humanities Festival announced Wednesday that Stuart Flack, its executive director since 2007, has resigned and will be leaving the organization Dec. 31. “I've been here for five years, I think we've done great work, built a great team,...

    Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, Education, University of Chicago

    5. Nov 11, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Wiesel speaks to sanctity of learning, power of memory

    Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking such nonsense as, "There never was a Holocaust."
    Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Authors, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Nobel Prize Awards, Literature

    6. Oct 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Chicago is Yo-Yo Ma's cultural soapbox

    The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-frequent visits to Chicago.
    The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-...

    Tags: Public Schools, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music, Rahm Emanuel, Music Industry

    7. May 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. MCA bringing Stew, Handspring Puppet Theatre, Mike Daisey to Chicago in 2012-13

    Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2012-13 season of live performances. The typically expansive, eclectic and inter-disciplinary season includes the following events: - "Imperial Science: Una Opera Muerta" An operatic collaboration...

    Tags: Artists, Entertainment, Arts, Goodman Theatre, War Horse (movie)

    8. Nov 2, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. A view of Occupy Wall Street, Disney and the desert through eyes of Mike Daisey

    THEATER REVIEW: "Mike Daisey: American Utopias" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ★★½ ... Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak.
    Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak. In "American Utopias," the neo-Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Daisey even takes on the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt Disney World. "It looks like a 1950s game show threw up on itself,"...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Amusement and Theme Parks, Arts, Lake Buena Vista, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey)

    9. Nov 5, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  9. Lyric creative team talks 'Bel Canto,' Ars Viva tackles elusive Sibelius symphony

    No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading up to the premiere. But such undertakings are vital if opera houses are not to become museums mired in the musty past.
    No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading up to the premiere. But such undertakings are vital if...

    Tags: Entertainment, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Cultural Center, Music, Festive Events

    10. Nov 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. Cursing is no curse for Ian Frazier

    Ian (expletive) Frazier, whose journalism has been a mainstay of the New Yorker for almost four (expletive) decades, whose subjects have included fly-fishing, Native American reservations, (expletive) Siberia, the security detail for hip-hop performers, typewriter repairmen, Don Cornelius, (expletive) meteorites, (expletive) trees, cellphone-sniffing canines and his own (expletive) (expletive) Ohio ancestry, has written his first novel, "The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days." It is inspired by his "Cursing Mommy" columns for the New Yorker. It is the satiric daybook of a tightly wound mom with a terrible family.
    Ian (expletive) Frazier, whose journalism has been a mainstay of the New Yorker for almost four (expletive) decades, whose subjects have included fly-fishing, Native American reservations, (expletive) Siberia, the security detail for hip-hop performers,...

    Tags: Authors, Journalism, Lifestyle and Leisure, Literature, Arts and Culture

    11. Oct 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. How to ruin an arts panel

    Today is the first day of the Chicago Humanities Festival and last day of Chicago Ideas Week. Not that it matters anymore when one annual celebration of creativity ends and another begins. Somewhere, every day of the year, morning, brunch and night, there seems to be an arts panel, arts seminar, book talk, onstage discussion between a moderator and artist, onstage discussion between a moderator and several artists, onstage discussion between an artist and artist, or discourse on the state of something artistic happening.
    Today is the first day of the Chicago Humanities Festival and last day of Chicago Ideas Week. Not that it matters anymore when one annual celebration of creativity ends and another begins. Somewhere, every day of the year, morning, brunch and night, there...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), David Chase, Zach Galifianakis, Arts and Culture, Entertainment

    12. Oct 8, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  12. Chicago Ideas Week organizers hope talks trigger something great

    Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high.
    Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high. Actually, only...

    Tags: Arts, Garry McCarthy, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon, Inc.

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