Monthly Archives: June 2018
Darkness Ascending – Macbeth at Chicago Shakespeare
Teller and Posner, coming off their successful comedy The Tempest a few years ago, have returned to Navy Pier for their second Chicago Shakespeare Theatre collaboration, a tensely wicked and at times oddly humorous adaptation of Macbeth, running through June 24. The play is staged at the newest addition to Chicago Shakespeare’s now three-stage campus, […]
Sunday at the Symphony
Marek Janowski guest conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over the weekend in a program that included Weber, Beethoven, and Wagner. Sunday’s was the final performance of the run, and I decided to check it out on a whim, securing an upper balcony seat around noon for the 3 pm show. There was a pre-concert lecture […]
In Memoriam: You Are Not Alone
Yesterday, I led a memorial service commemorating the life of a good friend. I worked with two of her very closest friends in the lead-up to the service, and, as is common, we gathered photos together for a slideshow to commemorate the occasion. As we compiled the show, a question arose about what kind of […]
Ryan Libel 