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What Chicago can learn from Toronto and its Luminato arts festival
The Theater Loop“1001 Nights,” by the British theater director Tim Supple, was commissioned by Toronto’s Luminato Festival and was supposed to open on Navy Pier in Chicago June 25. TORONTO — Luminato, the festival of arts, culture and ideas that... -
Wiesel speaks to sanctity of learning, power of memory
Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Chicago Tribune, World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment Events, Authors
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Chicago is Yo-Yo Ma's cultural soapbox
The Chicago Public Schools, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Humanities Festival, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Citizen Musician, "cultural entrepreneurship" — Yo-Yo Ma has a way of filling his plate during his now-...
Tags: Schools, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Public Schools, Entertainment
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Puppets and fairy tales are part of 'Stages, Sights and Sounds'
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff. What self-respecting kid will sit still for that?...Tags: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Arts, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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MCA bringing Stew, Handspring Puppet Theatre, Mike Daisey to Chicago in 2012-13
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2012-13 season of live performances. The typically expansive, eclectic and inter-disciplinary season includes the following events: - "Imperial Science: Una Opera Muerta" An operatic collaboration...Tags: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Artists, Arts, Dance, Goodman Theatre
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Chicago Humanities Festival lets in the Animal
In announcing its fall programming theme, “Animal: What Makes Us Human,” the Chicago Humanities Festival provides one answer to the question that, for want of a question mark, it doesn't quite pose. The desire and ability to stage an...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Hyde Park, Arts and Culture, Autism, Festive Events
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A view of Occupy Wall Street, Disney and the desert through eyes of Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak. In "American Utopias," the neo-Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Daisey even takes on the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt Disney World. "It looks like a 1950s game show threw up on itself,"...
Tags: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Arts, Occupy Wall Street, Manhattan (New York City), Lake Buena Vista
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Lyric creative team talks 'Bel Canto,' Ars Viva tackles elusive Sibelius symphony
No opera company faces a more formidable task than commissioning a new opera, assembling the forces needed to bring it to fruition and nursing it through the long and sometimes painful process leading up to the premiere. But such undertakings are vital if...
Tags: Chicago Cultural Center, Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Andrew Davis
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Cursing is no curse for Ian Frazier
Ian (expletive) Frazier, whose journalism has been a mainstay of the New Yorker for almost four (expletive) decades, whose subjects have included fly-fishing, Native American reservations, (expletive) Siberia, the security detail for hip-hop performers,...
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How to ruin an arts panel
Today is the first day of the Chicago Humanities Festival and last day of Chicago Ideas Week. Not that it matters anymore when one annual celebration of creativity ends and another begins. Somewhere, every day of the year, morning, brunch and night, there...
Tags: Artists, Breast Cancer, Manhattan (New York City), Zach Galifianakis, Entertainment
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Chicago Ideas Week organizers hope talks trigger something great
Chicago Ideas Week headquarters is a brightly lit, sprawling, open room in a River North office building where scores of workers sit at long rows of desks working the phones, rat-a-tatting their keyboards and keeping the din level high. Actually, only...
Tags: Eric Lefkofsky, Lance Armstrong, United Air Lines, River North, Entertainment
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Tribune literary awards go to Sondheim, Franzen, Wilkerson
Tribune reporter"Writing" seems an inadequate word to describe what Stephen Sondheim has done, yet it is the breadth, impact and influence of his writing that have won him the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement. The 81-year-old composer and...Tags: Music Theater, August (movie), Chicago Tribune, Human Interest, Sam Shepard
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