Five Outdoor Theatre Festivals to See This Summer
Every summer, some of Chicago’s best actors decamp for outdoor festivals around the Midwest. Here are five alfresco crowd pleasers for every kind of traveler.
Contributors: Kevin Nance
How Renée Fleming and Anthony Freud Convinced The Lyric To Stage 'Oklahoma!'
Can this 1943 musical—and a schedule packed with more Rogers and Hammerstein classics—convince a young audience to come see an opera next?
February’s Best Books
Christine Sneed’s debut novel, a riveting tale of family secrets, and new short stories from Karen Russell
The Art Institute’s Douglas Druick on the Museum of the Future
VAN GOGH 2.0: The Institute’s director aims to lead backward-looking museums into the future
Fall Culture Guide
Fall is typically Chicago culture’s golden season, but this one gleams platinum. We’re welcoming a Broadway-bound musical, an art blockbuster, first-class concerts, and the final installment of a razor-sharp literary trilogy—plus new plays, dances, movies, and more, from a crop of turbocharged Chicagoans.