Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Best Bets - The cityNov 01, 2021 9:53 am - In the round The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago opens its 2007-08 season with the area premiere of "A Slipping Glimpse," a full-length work by San Francis...
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The Backroom proves there's an art to pop songsOct 31, 2021 9:57 pm - The first song on The Backroom's first full-length album is so clean and unabashedly catchy that I'm not ashamed to say I woke up this morning with the tune in my head. ...
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Home spunOct 31, 2021 10:00 pm - Barbara Manning, "Super Scissors" (Rainfall Records) High influential indie rock vet from 1980s gets reintroduced on 3-CD set Vic Chestnutt, "North Star Deserter (Dig)" ...
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'Savannah Disputation' fits in well at Writers' TheatreNov 01, 2021 9:59 am - Two years ago the intrepid folks at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe produced a short, witty play, "The Uneasy Chair," by a young writer based in Savannah, Georgia -- Evan Sm...
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Top 10 musicOct 31, 2021 10:01 pm - Here are the top 10 music hits as they appear in Billboard magazine. Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold. Ho...
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Performer for the agesNov 01, 2021 9:56 am - Luciano Pavarotti was a giant of music in much more than a literal sense, and when I learned of his death Sept. 6 while traveling through New England, memories of his pe...
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Chicago becomes tour-ending destination for AerosmithNov 01, 2021 9:58 am - Chicago is now the final destination of Aerosmith's 37-city international tour. Publicists for the rock band say the group had to cancel its sold-out, tour-ending concer...
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Two plays give unique look at black theaterOct 31, 2021 10:05 pm - Days after Congo Square Theatre's Midwest premiere of Afro-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Elmina's Kitchen," Pegasus Players opened its revival of August Wilson'...
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Tickets for SaleOct 31, 2021 10:02 pm - Following is a list of recently announced shows. Ticket prices do not reflect service or handling fees. Aerosmith, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Allstate Arena, 692...
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Bowie donates $10,000 to teenagers' defense fundOct 31, 2021 9:49 pm - NEW ORLEANS -- David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisian...