PEGASUS TAKES FLIGHT
Get ready, Egypt. Here comes Stephen Sondheim, via Pegasus Players of Chicago. Next November, the plucky off-Loop theater that has produced many Sondheim musicals over the years will be taking...
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LET’S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY–FOR POPCORN OR BABA GANOUSH
Max Jacobson, whose job it is to observe and critique the increasingly eclectic restaurant scene in this booming desert metropolis, is the kind of down-to-earth foodie who isn't ashamed to...
MARCHING ORDERS
If it seems weird that Chicago will host both of its St. Patrick's Day parades this weekend, almost a week before the actual holiday, you can blame it on a...
Q. In the new movie “Topsy-Turvy,” about…
Q. In the new movie "Topsy-Turvy," about the genesis of the operetta "The Mikado," composer Arthur Sullivan repeatedly expresses weariness with author William S. Gilbert's reliance on what Sullivan calls...
`ALL YOU COULD ASK OF ISOLDE’
Nov. 25, 1937 Ben Heppner and Jane Eaglen have been termed "the Tristan and Isolde for the new millennium," and you can hear them in those roles beginning Monday at...
PLAYING DEFENSE
Stroll down a street with Leslie Nielsen. You won't go far before someone will stop, shake the actor's hand and, as happened the other day at Dearborn and Hubbard Streets,...
THE RAINBOW CONNECTION
On Friday, the glam-country band The Blacks plays the Museum of Contemporary Art. May we suggest these last-minute additions to the lineup? Red Red Meat, eclectic rock Orange 9mm,punk Yellowman,...
WASHINGTON’S BUFF WAS NO BLUFF–HE PUMPED UP FOR THE PART
The first thing Denzel Washington's fans are likely to notice in his portrayal of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is how buff he looks in his boxing trunks, especially in contrast to...
DIGITAL SIGNALS STILL HARD TO FIND IN CHICAGO AREA
For at least a year now, Chicago-area television viewers may have been wondering why everyone else in the country seems to be receiving high-definition and other digital signals, but not...
TALENTED CAST WASTED IN `THE SUBURBANS’
About 10 minutes into "The Suburbans," you get the sneaking feeling that this three-legged mutt's been sitting around unloved and unfed, on a shelf somewhere in Hollywood, for two or...