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Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 15, 2024 2:21 pm - When Elton John was on tour in America in the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye — televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Now he’s putting her story to song with the stage musical “Tammy Faye.”
Spotlight: ‘Some Like It Hot’ heats up Cadillac Palace, BrightSide scares up thrills with ‘Dracula’

By Barbara Vitello
Oct 15, 2024 12:44 pm - “Some Like It Hot,” the tuner based on Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 comedy, comes to Chicago for a brief run, while Naperville’s BrightSide Theatre celebrates the spooky season with its revival of “Dracula.”
Orion Sun unveils her path to self-discovery in a new album, Chicago show

By LESLIE AMBRIZ
Oct 15, 2024 12:34 pm - Amid a creative spiral, Orion Sun found comfort among the words of the late Audre Lorde’s essay “Poetry is not a luxury.” It provided a mental redirection for the musician while working on her new album, “Orion.” She’s playing a sold out show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall Oct. 30.
Concerts Oct. 18-24: Lee DeWyze, Richard Marx, Micky Dolenz, David Kushner and more

By Luke Zurawski
Oct 15, 2024 12:10 pm - Upcoming concerts this week include Arlington Heights native Lee DeWyze at Hey Nonny, Richard Marx, Great White and Slaughter, Micky Dolenz, Vertical Horizon, Rachael Yamagata and more.
Book Review: Cop cold case unit pursues a rapist, foils a terrorist plot and tackles a 1947 murder in Michael Connelly’s ‘The Waiting’

By BRUCE DESILVA
Oct 15, 2024 9:35 am - It’s early morning in Southern California, and Renee Ballard, director of the LAPD Open-Unsolved Unit, is where she most loves to be. She’s surfing, and she’s darned good...
Best Bets: Celebrate the season at Schaumburg’s Halloween carnival

By Barbara Vitello
Oct 15, 2024 8:21 am - Schaumburg hosts its annual Halloween carnival at Wintrust Field, bluesmen and women headline several suburban venues, and Highland Park’s Madame ZuZu’s hosts a pop-up salute to Bozo this weekend.
Tori Amos’ first children’s book is an ode to inspiration

Oct 15, 2024 8:17 am - Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tori Amos is working on a children's book — her first — that she hopes will help young people follow their own paths of inspiration. “Tori and the Muses” will be published March 4.
Christopher Reeve’s kids wanted to be ‘honest, raw and vulnerable’ in new documentary ‘Super/Man’

By BROOKE LEFFERTS
Oct 15, 2024 6:42 am - Christopher Reeve’s children say they made a point to include all the complexities of their father’s life — his strengths and weaknesses — in the new documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” — because that’s what he would have wanted.
Festivals Oct. 18-24: Halloween events, All Hallows Eve, Civil War Encampment and more

By Luke Zurawski
Oct 15, 2024 6:22 am - Mark your calendar for Halloween events across the suburbs, including All Hallows Eve at Naper Settlement and Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin, plus the Civil War Encampment and Battle in Hainesville and more happening this week.
Ron Onesti: John Bonham’s Stairway to a Heavenly Legacy

By Ron Onesti
Oct 14, 2024 2:33 pm - At our Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, rock ’n’ roll royalty came, and conquered. Jason Bonham, the talented son of original Zep drummer John Bonham, brought his incredible live-band, multi-media “Led Zeppelin Experience” to St. Charles.

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