Dissecting the grand finale of "Billy Elliot"
Spin Cycle: The boys who play the title character discuss the toughest move in the show: a finale of pirouettes
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Two-fer: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart While Conducting the CSO!
Now that Daniel Barenboim is gone, CSO-goers have fewer chances to see conducting from the piano. Last night’s all-Mozart concert, where Mitsuko Uchida conducted and soloed in piano concerti nos. 17 and 27, scratched that jack-of-all-trades itch…
Allison Torem is the Reason to See Lookingglass's New Play, Trust
Whether you think Trust, a new play that opened Saturday at the Lookingglass Theatre, is a wallop-packing drama about cyberstalking or a made-for-television issues-movie poorly translated to the stage, Allison Torem is coming in for some universal praise…
Top 40 Music Albums by Chicago Artists
As the magazine’s 40th anniversary approaches, we rank the 40 best albums ever by Chicago artists
50 Nifty Aldermanic Portraits
Our top five picks for things to do this week: The free stuff gets top billing, which means you have no excuse to stay home.
Chicago: Pinball’s capital and last best hope
Once the manufacturing capital for the world’s pinball machines, Chicago is now the last, best hope for those loud and gaudy electronic games
3-D Alice at the Showplace Icon in the South Loop: Worth 20 bucks plus food?
Luxury theatres sound fantastic in theory: ginger cocktails, bacon popcorn, plush seating, and, did we mention, bacon popcorn? But how often do you want to pay $17.50—or $20 if it’s in 3-D—for a movie?…
City in Waiting
You wouldn’t expect Chicago to figure prominently in a book called Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. And indeed the book—the latest entry in the Oxford History of the United States—frequently looks eastward as Washington, Jefferson, et al. strive to form a cohesive nation under their new…
'The Celebrity Apprentice,' Episode One: Blago Squeaks Through—Barely
Since being ousted as governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich has been mostly unemployed. What the future holds for him is unclear—and it certainly won’t be determined until after his upcoming trial for corruption—but if last night’s premiere episode of NBC’s The Celebrity Apprentice is any indication, Blago should cross “waiter” off his list of potential future jobs. . . .
Amanda Majeski Rocks the Lyric Opera
This past Tuesday, during the run of the Lyric Opera’s production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the Northwestern graduate and Gurnee native Amanda Majeski stepped into one of the leading roles as an understudy and wowed the crowd.