Suppose you wanted to put together a musical program that pays tribute to America’s greatest pop-orchestral traditions. You might start by having one of the nation’s premiere orchestral ensembles play […]

The success of the 2007 film Once, the simple story of a guy and a girl making music in Dublin, was probably pretty surprising even to those most intimately involved […]

Gannery Htoo is about to have the experience of a lifetime. Htoo is a junior at South Side High School and a student dancer in the outreach program of Fort […]

The term “working musician” was created to describe guys like Jon Durnell. Having played over 175 shows last year with several different bands and working toward at least 125 shows […]

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman is currently running at First Presbyterian Theater through March 25. This classic play, inspired by an older true story Hellman had read, shows the […]

What is it about a happily single person that makes people determined to find her a mate? Arena Dinner Theater has an entire evening devoted to that question, with Getting […]

There might never again be a musical era like the 70s, an era in which a select group of rock bands figured out how to pair stagecraft with their music […]

Chuck Prophet’s latest album, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins, is a rock album about rock music. Or at least the title track is. The mysterious story of Fuller, who […]