Somewhat Recommended ** Over the years (in fact 20 years), I have watched the work of Sean Graney and his...
Highly Recommended **** The 1st Chicago International Latino Theater Festival is here! Unlike the Goodman Latinofest of recent years, the...
Last month, in one of my early morning breakfast conversations at a local café, several “counter creatures” (these are...
Highly Recommended ***** There may be people in troubled times who can uphold civic virtues and risk all for a better...
Here I am, approaching 75 years of life, and reviewing a play that was first presented 75 years ago- Thornton...
Highly Recommended ***** Pretty much everyone who loves opera loves Rigoletto, and in the new-to-Chicago production directed by E. Loren Meeker...
Highly Recommended ***** "Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits" is, quite simply, what the title says that it is. Nearly 30 of...
Highly Recommended **** Yes, I am on a diet! That's what made it difficult to review a book that is...
"O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord,...
Recommended *** I have a granddaughter whose name is Rebecca Shaw! This may have made watching the current offering of...