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Best Bets: Joffrey Ballet's lavish 'Nutcracker' returns
Nov 30, 2021 6:00 AM - The Joffrey Ballet's "The Nutcracker" opens at the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, the "Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular" tours to the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan, and comedian Rocky LaPorte plays the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights. -
Silent movie-inspired 'Magic Flute' dazzles at art deco Lyric Opera House
Nov 4, 2021 7:32 PM - The Lyric Opera House proves to be the apotheosis of perfect places to see Mozart's "The Magic Flute" in the globally popular Komishe Oper Berlin production. All the animated 1920s imagery inspired by silent movies feels architecturally right at home, and it consistently dazzles. -
Return to form: Fans rejoice in the return of live opera
Sep 28, 2021 9:44 AM - Live opera performances have resumed following the hiatus imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021-22 season features many Chicago premieres and returning favorites. -
Best Bets: Lyric Opera crowns a new 'Macbeth'
Sep 15, 2021 7:30 AM - Former St. Charles resident Sondra Radvanovsky stars in a new Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Verdi's "Macbeth," Ron White plays the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan and the Monster Jam returns to the Allstate Arena in Rosemont. -
Suburban singers perform in Metropolitan Opera concert remembering 9/11
Sep 10, 2021 1:19 PM - Elk Grove Village native and soprano Ailyn Pérez stars alongside Evanston native and tenor Matthew Polenzani as soloists in PBS' concert of "Verdi's Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11." -
Best Bets: Lyric's 'Sunday in the Park' plays Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Aug 24, 2021 6:00 AM - On tap this weekend: Experience the Lyric Opera of Chicago outdoors at Millennium Park, laugh along with Chicago comedian Michael Issac at Zanies in Rosemont or catch Poi Dog Pondering playing RiverEdge Park in Aurora Saturday. -
Live opera returns with new Opera Festival of Chicago, Des Plaines' summer opera
Jul 15, 2021 9:09 AM - Indoor opera performances are back this summer. There's the inaugural season debut of the Opera Festival of Chicago, plus the return of the Chicago Summer Opera program in its first full season in Des Plaines. -
Lyric Opera, Joffrey Ballet announce upcoming seasons; return to live indoor performances
May 19, 2021 4:57 PM - The Joffrey Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago jointly announced their 2021-22 seasons Wednesday, anticipating a return to live indoor performances at Chicago's Civic Opera House for both companies after being forced to create online programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Spotlight: Northlight's BJ Jones co-stars with Tracy Michelle Arnold in virtual reading of 'Wright/Rand'
Apr 15, 2021 6:00 AM - Northlight Theatre artistic director BJ Jones co-stars with Tracy Michelle Arnold in a virtual reading of "Wright/Rand," a new play about architect Frank Lloyd Wright and philosopher Ayn Rand. Plus, 4 Chairs Theatre stages a virtual production of the pop musical "Island Song," this week in Chicago-area theater. -
Best Bets: MLK celebrations move online
Jan 12, 2021 6:00 AM - The African American Arts Alliance of Chicago and Black Ensemble Theater present a Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration online, and College of Lake County streams "Sinatra Forever" and "The Greatest Piano Men."
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