MPAACT takes on academic politics while Pine Box Theatre skewers electoral politics and the Strange Tree Group puts its own complicated spin on the venerable murder mystery.
So you think you’ve seen Georges Seurat’s famous painting "A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte –1884"? You know, the pointillist one that inspired Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George? See it with new eyes when the Art Institute and Chicago Shakespeare collaborate to present a living version of the picture.
On Friday's Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ's Becky Vevea looks at what a potential Chicago Teachers Union strike would mean for families, the city and the school system. Then, comedians Hal Sparks and Judy Tenuta bring the laughs to our weekly review panel.
On Thursday's Eight Forty-Eight, we talk to our Boys off the Bus about Bill Clinton's barnburner of a speech and celebrate the life of lyricist Hal David with WBEZ's Richard Steele and Chicago-based singer Joanie Pallatto.
The late Hal David, who died Saturday, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1921. He was a lyricist who became one half of a very successful songwriting team with Burt Bacharach in the late ‘50s through the early ‘70s.
We probably won’t see sweeping, comprehensive bills on immigration or the environment in a potential second term for our current president. Instead, expect to see Obama dedicate his second term to ensuring that the work accomplished in the first four years, like the passage of the Affordable Care Act, is seen through to fruition.
