75 stories by "Deanna Isaacs"
While Chicago opera plays on your phone, Symphony Center announces May opening.
We'll have to wait until sometime this summer to get the video stream Lyric Opera…
The Museum of Contemporary Photography's "Reproductive" raises questions about the future of Roe v. Wade.
In startling news today, doctors in Missouri are report…
A year after the shutdown, they're bringing it back.
It was Friday, the 13th of March, 2020, when Lyric Opera general director Anthony Freud had to cancel the c…
But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the…
The nuns are in COVID shutdown, but she's got a new, Chicago-centric book
Vicki Quade had a new show opening at the Royal George Theatre the weekend of March 15,…
That shouldn't cost her, right?
It was great to hear, late last month, that Chicagoan Angela Jackson has been chosen as the new Illinois poet laureate. Great bec…
Her quilts draw upon historic photos and family albums for inspiration.
The first and only time I've seen Bisa Butler's artwork "in the flesh" was at EXPO 2018, …
A new documentary celebrates cliteracy.
Given that"as legal pundit Jeffrey Toobin recently and so unexpectedly reminded us"everyone is sexual, here's a question:…
A new biography examines Edith Rockefeller McCormick's stranger-than-fiction life.
It's common knowledge, though not commonly admitted, that biographers tend to …
The comedy powerhouse is on the market for only the second time in its 60-year history.
Yes, And . . . Second City is for sale!…
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
I'd been thinking about Silk Road Rising, the mission-driven performing arts company fou…
Modern in the Middle is a groundbreaking compendium of Chicago's midcentury residential architecture.
Chicago's skyscraper modernism"the Hancock, Marina City, Se…
Lyric hosts a free, multigenre online concert this weekend.
This weekend, just about the time when"minus the virus"we would have been plopping our posteriors int…
But the AIA board stays mum on the reasons for exec's abrupt exit.
The brief missive that appeared on the AIA Chicago website August 13 was mystifying. Posted by…
The former Chicago Dancers United executive director raises a social media storm about the organization and its annual benefit.
COVID-19 couldn't stop the 2020 D…
In Sahar Mustafah's debut novel, The Beauty of Your Face, a terrorist attack opens a window on the story of a Palestinian American family in Chicago.
Sahar Musta…
Arts & Business Council of Chicago invites nominations and votes for the greatest moments in Chicago music history.
Chicago has sent a lot of great sound int…
Chicago History Museum is collecting the city's pandemic experience.
This COVID-19 interlude will have a place in history. We can too.…
Chicago Symphony Orchestra institutes across the board cuts in musicians and staff salaries.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association announced today that its …
Major performing arts organizations recalibrate for COVID-19.
After the crushing decision last month to cancel its long-awaited Ring Cycle, Lyric Opera today ann…
Departing president Gary Johnson talks about going digital in a pandemic.
At this outlier moment in our history, every story is about coronavirus"even last week'…
Americans for the Arts wants you to speak up, now.
The federal government's getting ready to unleash a flood of coronavirus relief cash, much of which will, as u…
Chicago cultural institutions keep their cool.
The coronavirus has prompted some unimaginable recent news: NCAA basketball in empty arenas; Harvard University (a…
Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.
Preservation Chicago announced the 2020 edition of its annual list of the city's "7 Most Endangered Buildings" today…
Deal yourself in for Tchaikovsky's operatic exploration of obsession at Lyric.
In the dicey business of bringing historic opera to contemporary audiences, Lyric …
