Sayet gives a very real and heart-wrenching personal account of what it means to resurrect an identity in a world that has largely based its own reflections of history on a visualization that largely relegates her and her people into the shadows.
"Rita Finds Home" is a 45-minute production centering around a young artist named Rita who dreams of one day living in the big city, despite the lush tropical island in which she lives. When a hurricane forces her and her mother into a new life in an urban metropolis, Rita struggles to adapt to her new environment and starts to have feelings of loss.
This year’s play is “As You Like It,” “Fer sure!” Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (May 19-21) at 7:00 pm, and Sunday (May 22) at 2:00 pm. Audience members are invited to bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating by the pavilion stage. The grounds open one hour before each performance. In case of bad weather, the event will be moved indoors.
In the 1950s, Oscar Levant was a household name. Popular game show host, Hollywood film actor, composer and accomplished concert pianist, he is best remembered for his late-night TV talk show appearance, in which he displayed his acerbic wit,...
The Spitfire Grill is an American musical based on the 1996 critically acclaimed movie that depicts the journey of a young woman just released from prison who decides to start her new life in a rural town in Wisconsin. She participates in a journey within the town toward its own tenuous reawakening.
A new Diva is born, in the person of Michelle Bradley, who channeled the most famous Tosca of all, Maria Callas, in the new-to-Lyric Opera Chicago’s presentation of one of Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic operas. This seamless presentation of his towering masterpiece runs through April 10th at the Civic Opera House. It is a must-see, not only for lovers of opera, but also for those whose love of liberty and freedom courses through their veins. It is a theme that dominated the evening.
John F. Kennedy Middle School eighth-grader Sofia Mercado wrote a letter to Civil Rights advocate Edith Lee-Payne, prompting her to visit the school and speak to the entire eighth-grade class about her experiences in the Civil Rights movement.
