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Taylor Swift, LL Cool J, Kenny Loggins and David Byrne are among Songwriters Hall of Fame nominees

By MARIA SHERMAN
Oct 23, 2025 9:40 am - Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame class, an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, folk and rock innovators.
Broadway musicians reach labor deal, averting a strike

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 23, 2025 6:48 am - The union representing Broadway’s musicians reached a tentative labor agreement with commercial producers on Thursday, averting a potentially crippling strike that would have silenced nearly two dozen musicals.
Some tragedy, some romance, and a regretful helping of corn in ‘Regretting You’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 23, 2025 6:15 am - Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You,” a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the tears give way to smiles, quips and then full-on rom-com corniness feels a little awkward — and then just weird and annoying.
Guillermo del Toro builds a handsome, grand ‘Frankenstein’ that is all his own

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 23, 2025 6:00 am - Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. His version of “Frankenstein” is a story about stories, about fathers and sons, innocents and monsters, and the madness of creation.
‘Bugonia’ is a darkly comic gut punch

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 23, 2025 5:30 am - The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His latest, “Bugonia,” starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, is thrillingly, if tragically, tied to our reality. It might even be his best film.
Josh O’Connor plays an artless thief in the artful ‘Mastermind’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - Not far into Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” a very different kind of art heist film starring Josh O’Connor, the title’s irony becomes painfully clear. This onetime art student, now a family man and unemployed carpenter, is the furthest thing from a mastermind.
‘Blue Moon’ is a poignant, funny valentine, and Ethan Hawke has never been better

By JAKE COYLE
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” about lyricist Lorenz Hart as portrayed by Ethan Hawke, is a joyous celebration of a brilliant, stubbornly uncompromising creative visionary and a grand time at the movies.
Jeremy Allen White is a tortured Boss in ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - The first authorized biopic of his life — “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — delves deep into the inner turmoil The Boss was dealing with during the recording of “Nebraska,” with the soulful Jeremy Allen White giving an endearing, humbling portrait of the icon.
Naperville could apply food and beverage tax to drive-through-only chains, food trucks

By Katlyn Smith
Oct 22, 2025 2:22 pm - Despite their growing popularity in Naperville, most drive-through-only concepts are not required to collect and remit the city’s food and beverage tax, according to a finance department memo. A draft ordinance would change that.
‘We don’t all have to be the same’: BrightSide Theatre revival of ‘Rocky Horror’ comes at the right time

By Barbara Vitello
Oct 22, 2025 1:55 pm - BrightSide Theatre artistic director Jeffrey Cass fulfills his longtime ambition to stage the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Show,” a campy 1973 tuner that celebrates living one’s truth and living it fearlessly.

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