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On a clear, frigid evening last week, despite the rush of traffic outside on Michigan Avenue and the fifteen hundred people seated inside, their breath still visible in the chilled […]

Holiday vocal concerts always give me trepidation. While choral concerts often include popular songs that crowd out the classical repertoire, during the holidays, any manner of music, classical and popular, […]

At the end of a frenzied day of performances across the city, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago concluded Wednesday’s Bach Marathon with a free concert of all six Brandenburg Concertos […]

Shakespeare on Film is a carefully curated array of film adaptations of Shakespearean plays, beginning this week and running until January 3 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. This is […]

Stages Twist Your Dickens @ Goodman Theatre December 2-30, 170 N. Dearborn St. The Second City brings its annual holiday satire to the Goodman stage, with a revised script and […]

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, which means spending a lot of time in a confined space with a lot of drunk family members. Throughout the season’s various dinners and […]

In a program entitled Autumnal Reflections, a trio from the 11-member Fifth House Ensemble gave a rousing performance of three romantic era works at the Driehaus Museum on Wednesday night. […]

Contributed by Emma Mac, DJ at WXRT. Thank you Third Coast for inviting me to be a part of this very cool project! With the recent election and political madness […]

This summer, Roisin Murphy became the first pop singer to perform at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. This taste for the theatrical was on full display last week during her sold […]

Violinist Isabelle Faust and Pianist Alexander Melnikov gave a charming and clean, if occasionally restrained, performance of Beethoven sonatas on Friday night at Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago […]

In its second offering of the 2016-17 season, the Orion Ensemble goes back to its roots with three of its founding members playing music from the 20th century. Serenade by […]

The Dressmaker Those few times a year when a film escapes from Australia and makes its way stateside, you can usually count on it being a familiar story told through […]