Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Review: Seventeen offer fleeting distraction with new EPOct 19, 2020 7:00 am - 'œSemicolon,'ť by Seventeen (Pledis Entertainment) Is it a 'œHomerun'ť for Seventeen? With special album 'œ;(Semicolon),'ť Seventeen offer some comfort pop. Punctuation ...
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Music review: Katie Melua achieves ethereal beauty on new albumOct 19, 2020 6:00 am - Katie Melua, "Album No. 8" (BMG) Katie Melua sings as if she's sharing a secret, which is what makes her music so inviting. Born in the former Soviet republic of Ge...
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Book review: A poignant, and fab, mosaic of the BeatlesOct 19, 2020 6:00 am - "150 Glimpses of the Beatles" by Craig Brown (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) "They ARE awful. But I also think they're fabulous. Let's just go and say hello." What if y...
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Blues harmonica virtuoso Corky Siegel helps Chamber Music on the Fox kick off seventh seasonOct 19, 2020 1:00 am - In a year when people have been in Zoom work meetings, Zoom happy hours and Zoom birthday parties, why not have a Zoom harmonica blues jam organized by a local chamber m...
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Album review: Is Springsteen's 'Letter to You' a goodbye note?Oct 18, 2020 7:30 am - Bruce Springsteen, “Letter to You” (Columbia) Has Bruce Springsteen written a “Letter to You” to say goodbye? The Boss turned 71 just last month. Although his fitne...
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Rocker Lenny Kravitz looks back to when he found his voiceOct 16, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Lenny Kravitz is a man of extremes - as he readily admits. 'œI am deeply two-sided: black and white, Jewish and Christian, Manhattan and Brooklynite,'ť h...
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Sound check: Phillip-Michael Scales' new single addresses the personal impact of racismOct 16, 2020 6:00 am - “Tell Me How I Sound Again,” the new single out Friday by dive-bar soul singer Phillip-Michael Scales, speaks to how he feels as a Black man in today's America. Going ba...
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Concerts: Fitz & the Tantrums play Lakeshore Drive-inOct 16, 2020 6:00 am - Kurt Elling Cocktail Hour — 25th Anniversary Virtual Concert Tour: 3 and 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at Chicago's The Green Mill, Chicago. $15-$60; livestreaming at greenmil...
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'Madmen & Prisoners': First Folio keeps the faith with virtual double bill of Poe talesOct 16, 2020 6:00 am - In the face of an ongoing pandemic that has hammered arts organizations, First Folio Theatre's David Rice remains determinedly optimistic that live theater will rebound,...
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Spotlight: Virtual productions feature a disaster film parody and a Pulitzer Prize-winning two-handerOct 16, 2020 6:00 am - 'Airport' revisited Fasten your seat belt: Hell in a Handbag Productions once again dips into the disaster film genre for its latest, camp-enfused parody "Airport 1970 S...