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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 8, 2017
Akeelah and the Bee, Die Walküre, and 14 more new stage shows to see

An inspirational kids' show and a not-be-missed Lyric Opera production are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Akeelah and the Bee, Adventure Stage, Cheryl L. West, Scripps National Spelling Bee, La Shone T. Kelly, Aaron Quick, Brandon Rivera, Daryl Brooks, Bob: A Life in Five Acts, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, the Comrades, Derek Bertelsen, Will Quam, Bobby Pin Girls, Nothing Without a Company, Janey Bell, Grace Hutchings, Emilie Modaff, Debo Balogun, Peter Wilde, Ben Kaye, The Consul, Gian Carlo Menotti, Chicago Opera Theater, Andreas Mitisek, refugee crisis, Patricia Racette, Victoria Livengood, Justin Ryan, Kristof van Grysperre, 42nd Street, Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Michael Heitzman, Gene Weygandt, Emilio Sosa, I'll Be Seeing You, Broken Nose Collective, Kevin Jandrist, standards, the Derrick Tate Connection, J.B., Archibald MacLeish, City Lit Theater, The Book of Job, Brian Pastor, John Sabine, The Low Upside, stand-up, Promethean Theatre Ensembl, Marisol, Juan Castañeda, Newsies, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Patrick Rooney, Alex Sanchez, Man of La Mancha, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, MadKap Productions, Rocket City, Alabam', Mark Saltzman, Ashley Schaeffer, Michael Dalberg, Wayne Mell, School of Rock, Jack Black, Mike White, Julian Fellowes, This Wonderful Life, It's a Wonderful Life, American Blues Theater, Frank Capra, James Leaming, Carmen Roman, Joe Huppert, Steve Murray, Yasmina's Necklace, Rohina Malik, Susaan Jamshidi, Ann Filmer, 16th Street Theater, Goodman Theatre, Die Walküre, Lyric Opera Chicago, Richard Wagner, Andrew Jones, Christing Goerke, Eric Owens

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 26, 2017
Aladdin, Marry Me a Little, and ten more stage shows to see now

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Aladdin, Disney's Aladdin, Jonathan Weir, Reggie de Leon, Anthony Murphy, Bob Crowley, Alan Menken, Dundee: A Hip-Hopera, Gabe Caruso, Force Continuum, Kia Corthron, The Wolf at the End of the Block, Ike Holter, Michael Aaron Pogue, Hookman, Vanessa Stalling, Lauren Yee, Steep Theatre, Marry Me a Little, Porchlight Music Theatre, Austin Cook, Bethany Thomas, Stephen Sondheim, Company, Follies, Into the Woods, Saturday Night, Evening Primrose, Jess McLeod, Never the Milk & Honey, MPAACT, Carla Stillwell, Renee Lockett, Chicago Opera Theater, Philip Glass, The Perfect American, Walt Disney, Andreas MItisek, Der König von Amerika, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kevin Newbury, Justin Ryan, Karl Knapp, Scott Ramsay, Apollo Chorus, Prince Max's Trewly Awful Trip to the Desolat Interior, Red Theater, Ellen Struve, Maximilian, Heather Riordan, Charlee Cotton, the Mandan, the Hidatsa, Karl Bodmer, Queen, Victory Gardens Theater, Madhuri Shekar, Joanie Schultz, Priya Mohanty, Darci Nalepa, Adam Poss, The New Colony, Scapegoat, Connor McNamara, Kristina Valada-Viers, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare in Love, Lee Hall, Romeo and Juliet, Rachel Rockwell, Luigi Sottile, Nathaniel Braga, Linda Reiter, The Other Theatre Company, Threesome, Yussef El Guindi, Suzan Faycurry, Mike Tepeli, Demetrios Troy, Jason Gerace, Darren Jones

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 22, 2017
The Invention of Morel, Monster, and 13 more new stage shows

A world-premiere opera by Stewart Copeland and a Steppenwolf for Young Adults production are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, At the Table, Michael Perlman, Spencer Davis, Broken Nose Theatre, By the Bog of Cats, John Mossman, Marina Carr, Kristin Collins, Elise Wolf, Tim Musachio, Caroline Dodge Latta, The Artistic Home, The Fantasticks, Quest Theatre Ensemble, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, Kent Joseph, Sara Cate Langham, The Invention of Morel, Stewart Copeland, the Police, Jonathan Moore, Chicago Opera Theater, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Andrew Wilkowske, Lee Gregory, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Andreas Mitisek, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Love's Labors Lost, Marti Maraden, Kevin Depinet, Allen Gilmore, Shakespeare All-Stars Theatre Company, Macbeth, Ellen Cribbs, Erika Lebby, Maggie Miller, Arin Mulvaney, Chris Lesy, Merrick Robison, Clark Bender, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus—Live!, Amadeo Fusca, John Gray, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, Monster, Walter Dean Myers, Aaron Carter, Hallie Gordon, Daniel Kyri, Black Ensemble, My Brother's Keeper: The Story of the Nicholas Brothers, Rueben D. Echoles, Shari Adams, Vincent Jordan, Accomplice Theatre, Nameless Mountains, Megan Donahue, Courtney Abbott, Jake Kaufman, Laura Coleman, Chelsea David, Nevermind, It's Nothing, Chicago Slam Works, Teagan Walsh-Davis, Kyla Norton, Shelley Elaine Geiszler, First Floor Theater, Hutch Pimentel, Peerless, Jiehae Park, William Boles, Arnel Sancianco, the Gift Theatre, Unseen, Mona Mansour, Maureen Payne-Hahner, Alexandra Main, Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, Tympanic Theatre Company, Aaron Mays, Christopher Acevedo, Felipe Carrasco, Christian Castro, Endgame

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2017
Opera news: Mitisek out at COT, Jesus in at Lyric

Chicago Opera Theater announces the departure of artistic director Andreas Mitisek; Lyric Opera announces a season that'll include Jesus Christ Superstar and Fellow Travelers.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Music, Opera, Performing Arts, Chicago Opera Theater, Andreas Mitisek, Douglas Clayton, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Amber Wagner, Fellow Travelers, The Invention of Morel, Anthony Freud, Renee Fleming, Gregory Spears, Greg Pierce, Henry Fogel, John Neumeier, Harris Theater, Studebaker Theater, Athenaeum Theatre, Thomas Mallon

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 10, 2016
Fun Home, Betrayal, Graeme of Thrones, and 12 more new theater reviews

The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Another Snowy Day With Beatrix Potter and Friends, Chicago Children's Theatre, Will Bishop, Grace Needlman, Betrayal, Raven Theatre, Harold Pinter, Abigail Boucher, Sam Guinan-Nyhart, Keith Neagle, Cosmic Events Are Upon Us, Waltzing Mechanics, the Romanovs, Keely Leonard, Anastasia, Tsar Nicholas II, Chicago Opera Theater, The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell, Baroque opera, semi-opera, Andreas Mitisek, Haymarket Opera Orchestra, Marc Molomot, Kimberly E. Jones, First Lady Suite, Michael John LaChiusa, Jackie Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nick Graffagna, Nicholas Reinhart, Circle Theatre, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, David Zinn, Sam Gold, Robert Petkoff, Abby Corrigan, Graeme of Thrones, Ali Brice, Libby Northedge, Michael Condron, Krampus!, Ghostlight Ensemble, Underground Wonder Bar, Jaclyn Jensen, Mike Wozniak, The Little Flower of East Orange, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Eclipse Theatre Company, Steve Scott, John Henry Roberts, Moon Shot, Theater Unspeakable, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gargarin, Mark Frost, John F. Kennedy, Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun, NASA, Murder on Mount Olympus, Plautus, Public House Theatre, Byron Hatfield, Bye Bye Liver, Xolotl, Out of This World, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Cirque de Soleil, Rutherford's Travels, Charles Johnson, Middle Passage, Ilesa Duncan, David Barr II, Breon Arzell, Pegasus Theatre, Shrewish, The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, Artemisia Theatre, Singin' in the Rain, Tammy Mader, Michael Scott, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2015
At Lyric Opera and COT: a pair of Mozart operas

At Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, dueling Mozart operas.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Music, Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lyric Opera, The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart, Barbara Gaines, Henrik Nanasi, Susan Mickey, Chicago Opera Theater, Lucio Silla, Maeve Hoglund, Apollo Chorus, Chicago Philharmonic, Andreas Mitisek

Blogs, Bleader Feb 23, 2015
Chicago Opera Theater's Thérèse Raquin is pretty grim—simulated cunnilingus and all

Like a lot of contemporary opera, Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin is vocally challenged.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Opera, Arts, Music, Chicago Opera Theater, Tobias Picker, Therese Raquin, Ken Cazan, Mary Ann Stewart, Ed Parks, Suzan Hanson, Andreas Mitisek, Gene Scheer

Blogs, Bleader Jun 4, 2014
Looking for real activist art? Try this opera

Chicago Opera Theater's The Emperor of Atlantis is real activist art.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Music, Chicago Opera Theater, The Emperor of Atlantis, Viktor Ullmann, The Clever One, Carl Orff, Emily Birsan, Andreas Mitisek, Peter Kien, Francesco Milioto, Sean Cawelti

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2014
Chicago Opera Theater's two-opera/one-film weekend

Chicago Opera Theater is fleshing out its double bill of Ullmann and Orff with Chaplin.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Film, Music, Chicago Opera Theater, Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator, Viktor Ullmann, Carl Orff, The Emperor of Atlantis, The Clever One, Andreas Mitisek, Merle Reskin Theatre, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Albert Williams

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2013
Chicago Opera Theater's controversial Joan of Arc burns on

A play-within-a-play presentation of the early Verdi opera inflames the critics.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Do This, Theater, Arts, Music, Chicago Opera Theater, Giuseppe Verdi, Temistocle Solera, Andreas Mitisek, David Schweizer, New Millennium Orchestra, Francesco Milioto, Jack Magaw, Janice Pytel, Keith Parham, Suzan Hanson, Steven Harrison, Michael Chioldi

Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2013
Brave and boobilicious: Chicago Opera Theater's Maria de Buenos Aires

Chicago Opera Theater's Maria de Buenos Aires takes on Argentina's Dirty War, exposing the facts and more.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Women's Issues, Music, Chicago Opera Theater, Maria de Buenos Aires, Andreas Mitisek, Astor Piazzolla, Peabody Southwell

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2013
Tonight and Friday: Chicago Opera Theater's sexed-up The Fall of the House of Usher

Chicago Opera Theater takes Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher into the realm of repressed sexual identity.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Music, The Fall of the House of Usher, Chicago Opera Theater, Philip Glass, Andreas Mitisek, Ken Cazan, Suzan Hanson, Ryan MacPherson, Lee Gregory, Alan E. Muraoka, David Martin Jacques

Blogs, Bleader Feb 27, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 2/27: The Chicago Opera Theater, Moonspell, and Miller and Lauderdale

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 27, 2013
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, The Chicago Opera Theater, Philip Glass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Andreas Mitisek, Reggie's Rock Club, Portugal, Moonspell, Monica Kendrick, Marduk, Moonspell, Inquisition, the Foreshadowing, Death Wolf, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Buddy & Jim, Peter Margasak, Lincoln Hall, Max Gomez

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Feb 14, 2013
Under a new general director, Chicago Opera Theater aims to seduce

Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Chicago Opera Theater, Brian Dickie, Ken Cazan, Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera, Philip Glass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Gregory O'Leary, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Lyric Opera, opera, Anthony Freud, opera season, fundraising, Eric Slauter, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Harris Theater

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2011
Andreas Mitisek will head both Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera

Chicago Opera Theater hires Long Beach Opera head Andreas Mitisek.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Music, Performing Arts, Arts, Chicago Opera Theater, Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera, Gregory O'Leary, Brian Dickie

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An inspirational kids' show and a not-be-missed Lyric Opera production are among this week's best bets.

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.

A world-premiere opera by Stewart Copeland and a Steppenwolf for Young Adults production are among this week's best bets.

Chicago Opera Theater announces the departure of artistic director Andreas Mitisek; Lyric Opera announces a season that'll include Jesus Christ Superstar and Fellow Travelers.

The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week's best bets.

At Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, dueling Mozart operas.

Like a lot of contemporary opera, Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin is vocally challenged.

Chicago Opera Theater's The Emperor of Atlantis is real activist art.

Chicago Opera Theater is fleshing out its double bill of Ullmann and Orff with Chaplin.

A play-within-a-play presentation of the early Verdi opera inflames the critics.

Chicago Opera Theater's Maria de Buenos Aires takes on Argentina's Dirty War, exposing the facts and more.

Chicago Opera Theater takes Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher into the realm of repressed sexual identity.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Andreas Mitisek shakes things up, beginning with Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher.

Chicago Opera Theater hires Long Beach Opera head Andreas Mitisek.

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