The Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment will be presented to Lookingglass Ensemble member Heidi Stillman for her exceptionally literate and dramatic adaptation and direction of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, performed during the Lookingglass Theatre's 2008 seas
An esteemed panel including Jason conductor Christian Curnyn, University of Chicago Professor Robert Kendrick, stage director Andrew Eggert, and Baroque violinist Nadja Zwiener discuss early music performance practice.
It's been said that the role of an artist is to keep their eyes open, when everyone else's are shut. In a world increasingly fractured by poverty, racism, and religion, what is our responsibility as artists to address the problems we see? Does art have the power to bring change? To heal?
Each year the English Major in Writing at Northwestern University brings to campus at least one prominent writer in each genre (poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction) for one week of events including writing classes, a public reading, and individual conferences with advanced writing students.
Focusing on the Chicago bar scene of the postwar era, historian John D'Emilio has uncovered some surprising and unintended consequences of Richard Nixon's animosity towards the Richard J. Daley administration.
Last March, comedian Paul F. Tompkins performed and recorded a sold out show at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago. Nine months later, he released this show for posterity(and money!) in the form of his second album, Freak Wharf.
