Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park 2016 September 9, 2016 By Lori Dana For opera lovers, it is the official beginning of the fall season. Lyric Opera of Chicago’s annual “kick-off” concert[…]
Category: REVIEWS
2016 Grant Park Music Festival ~ Mahler Symphony No. 6
Mahler Symphony No. 6 Grant Park Music Festival June 24, 2016 4 STARS By Lori Dana It was a perfect evening on the lakefront, perhaps the first of the new Grant Park Music Festival season.[…]
Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park 2015 – CONCERT REVIEW
Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park Pritzker Pavilion September 11, 2015 By Lori Dana Any concert at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion relies in no small part on the weather when it comes to drawing[…]
Grant Park Music Festival – Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto, July 24, 2015 – CONCERT REVIEW
Grant Park Orchestra Emmanuel Villaume, Guest Conductor Andrew von Oeyen, Piano By Lori Dana For fans of Chicago’s greatest summer asset, this season’s Grant Park Music Festival has been a meteorological challenge. Our wildly variable[…]
Beast Women 2015 Spring Series – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill After long stints at the Greenhouse and the Den, Beast Women have brought their menagerie of variety acts back to their old home at PROP THTR for their 2015 Spring Series.[…]
Soul Brother, Where Art Thou? – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill The Second City e.t.c.’s new revue, Soul Brother, Where Art Thou?, has a sketch comedy dream team dominated by three women. Yes, Scott Morehead and Tim Ryder are fine utility players.[…]
Panic on Cloud 9 – REVIEW
By J. Scott Hill More than the Goodman, even more than Steppenwolf, Second City is Chicago’s most sought out theatre destination for out-of-towners — for theatregoers, for actors and comedians in search of training and[…]
A Night at the Peking Opera – Tianjin Peking Opera REVIEW
A Night at the Peking Opera Tianjin Peking Opera Company By Lori Dana The beautiful Reva and David Logan Center for the Performing Arts on The University of Chicago campus was the recent site of[…]
Grant Park Music Festival – Piano Concerto No. 2, August 14, 2013 – CONCERT REVIEW
Piano Concerto No. 2 By Sergei Rachmaninov Grant Park Music Festival August 14, 2013 By Lori Dana The Grant Park Music Festival’s last Wednesday evening offering of the season is an intriguing Russian program featuring[…]
Grant Park Music Festival – Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, July 31, 2013 – CONCERT REVIEW
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor By Anton Bruckner Grant Park Music Festival July 31, 2013 By Lori Dana The Grant Park Music Festival’s final July concert put the spotlight on one of Austrian composer[…]