Nancy S. BishopChicago,
"Second City" didn’t spring full grown from that stage in Chicago’s Old Town in the 1960s. Sketch comedy and improvisational theater has a long and storied history in Chicago, starting with a group of University of Chicago students who began ...
Nancy S. Bishop
How do we look when we’re looking at art? That’s one of the intriguing facets of this gorgeous art tour of London’s National Gallery. Frederick Wiseman’s documentary, "National Gallery", which opened in November, shows us many scenes of faces looking ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Lahr and Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf" artistic director, were seated on a stage dressed for the cluttered Irish bachelor-hoarder’s apartment for the current Steppenwolf production, Conor McPherson’s "The Night Alive." Lavey was prepared with her own advance copy of the book ...
This traveling exhibit of the treasures of one of England's grandest country homes offers a tempting peek at the real thing.
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
Most Americans don’t devote their lives and fortunes to shoring up their titled family’s 300-year old estate the way Lord David Cholmondeley, the current owner of the historic 4,000-acre, 106-room Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England does. So it was with ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
“He’s a good boy…Heeee zzza Goode boooboi…He’s a…” chants and slurs Melecio Estrella at the start of “29 Effeminate Gestures.” Estrella hits this angry mantra over and over as if it were a punching bag, until the sentence turns into ...
A Scavenger Hunt for Visitors, Fans and Obsessives
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Chicago is known for its iconic classic and contemporary architecture, as well as for its famous and eccentric architects, such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Perhaps because of that environment, many Chicagoans are ...
Michelle Alexandria
In an evil Green Goblin Broadway voice, sing with me, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, radioactive Spider-Man. After receiving lukewarm reviews from most and a downright hateful one from yours truly, The Amazing Spider-Man didn’t exactly set the world on fire. They ...
Emily S. Mendel
With the new year comes “Downton Abbey, Season 4,” the continuation of the spellbinding costume drama created and written by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes. It’s another season of fascinating “must see” television (usually an oxymoron).
PBS, taking full advantage ...
Emily S. Mendel
Foyle’s War’ (Series VII)
PBS Masterpiece MysteryCreated and written by Anthony HorowitzStarring: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle WeeksPBS stations, Sundays, Sept. 15-29, 2013, 9 p.m. ET/PT
A fabulous new seventh season of the applauded British series, “Foyle’s ...
Emily S. Mendel
'The Lady Vanishes'
Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring Tuppence Middleton, Tom Hughes, Selina Cadell
Adapted by Fiona Seres (based on the 1936 novel “The Wheel Spins,” by Ethel Lina White)
Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS stations
Aug. ...
