Entertainment
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Paramount's 'Bull: a love story' shows promise, but needs streamliningOct 14, 2022 3:30 pm - "Bull: a love story" - In December 2020, Paramount Theatre established the Inception Project, a new play development program to support Black, Indigenous, People of ...
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'Triangle of Sadness' a spiky social satire
Oct 14, 2022 6:00 am - “Triangle of Sadness” — ★ ★ ★ ½ The question of worth flows through Ruben Östlund's “Triangle of Sadness,” a handsomely grotesque satire about the guests and worker...
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Ron Onesti: Not a UFO sighting, just Schenker doing his thingOct 14, 2022 6:00 am - By Ron Onesti Special to dailyherald.com This past week we had two crazy, sold out shows with the legendary, German-born Michael Schenker, former guitarist from iconic r...
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Show off your smarts: Free trivia nights growing in popularity at suburban barsOct 14, 2022 6:00 am - What's the appeal of bar or restaurant trivia night? To Bradley Cool, director of operations at Crust Brewing in Rosemont, it's the community behind the competition. "Th...
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Spotlight: Chester Gregory salutes soul music legends at the Metropolis Performing Arts CentreOct 14, 2022 6:00 am - 10th anniversary, take two BrightSide Theatre revisits its pandemic-interrupted 10th anniversary season with a revival of "She Loves Me," the Jerry Boch-Sheldon Harnick ...
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'I want to keep outdoing myself,' Huntley Halloween decorator says
Oct 14, 2022 6:00 am - Louie and Sherri Molenda like to scare people. “That's what Halloween means to me: it's scary,” Louie Molenda said. “That's it.” For their elaborate haunted house setup ...
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'Daisy' finally blooms to open 59th season at Village Theatre GuildOct 13, 2022 11:00 pm - The Village Theatre Guild opens its 59th season with "Daisy" by Sean Devine. This production goes behind the scenes of the real-life story of the New York advertising a...
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'Till' grippingly reorients an American tragedy
Oct 13, 2022 6:00 am - “Till” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Almost by default, filmmakers typically take a wide lens to historical moments like the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. In reaching for a def...
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In 'Tar,' Cate Blanchett is a maestro at work
Oct 13, 2022 6:00 am - “'Tár” - ★ ★ ★ “Time is the thing,” says Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields' “Tár.” Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than wavi...
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Music on Stage Presents Musical Classic 42nd StreetOct 12, 2022 11:00 pm - Come and meet those dancing feet at Cutting Hall this October! Music on Stage is thrilled to bring 4nd Street to the stage. This production is truly the ultimate Broadwa...