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Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2018
‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Comedy, Film, Humor, Old Movies to Watch Now, On Video, Opera, Ernst Lubitsch, FilmStruck, Lubitsch touch, The Oyster Princess, Ossi Owalda, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sumurun, Pola Negri, Hollywood, Max Reinhardt, Dave Kehr, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, operetta, Lorenz Hart, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, MGM, Paramount, Cedric Gibbons, The Lady Dances, The Shop Around the Corner, Budapest, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, Heaven Can Wait, Technicolor, Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Samson Raphaelson, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Spring Byington

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 20, 2015
Court Theatre's Agamemnon, Ibsen's Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews

There's preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Agamemnon, Court Theatre, Animals Commit Suicide, First Floor Theater, Ibsen's Ghosts, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Greg Allen, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Strawdog Theatre, The Merry Widow, Lyric Opera, Renée Fleming, Franz Lehár, Leopold and Loeb case, Never the Sinner, John Logan, Victory Gardens, Playing God, Curious Theatre Branch, Beau O'Reilly, Pocatello, Griffin Theatre, Samuel D. Hunter, Repairing a Nation, Nikkole Salter, ETA Creative Arts, Tales of Fated Love, Clock Theater, You Can't Take It With You, Northlight Theatre

Blogs, Bleader Nov 16, 2015
Unfortunate timing for the opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow, set in Paris 1900

The opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow the day after the Paris terror attacks could hardly be very merry.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Music, Opera, Opening, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Civic Opera House, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Susan Stroman, Paris terror attacks

Blogs, Bleader Apr 25, 2014
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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Darren Aronofsky, Noah movie, Ben Sachs, Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan, Child's Pose, Cinema Palestine, Mars at Sunrise, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, For a Woman, Diane Kurys, No God No Master, David Strathairn, On My Way, Catherine Deneuve, Transcendence movie, Johnny Depp, Watermark movie, Jennifer Baichwall, Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes, Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, University of Chicago Doc Films, Alain Resnais, Melo, Ernst Lubitsch, The Merry Widow, Orson Welles, Othello, Gene Siskel Film Center, 10 Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Logan Theater Chicago, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre, Logan Center for the Arts, First Steps: The Early Works of Ruth Page and Sybil Shearer, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, Found Footage Festival, Music Box Chicago, Poets of Protest, Facets Cinematheque, Manal Al Sheikh, Mazen Maarouf, Sound of Silent Film Festival, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Sep 4, 2013
Recommended
Dark times in light opera

Chicago Folks Operetta celebrates composers and librettists whose livelihoods—and lives—were threatened by Nazism.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Germany, Austria, operetta composers, librettists, Nazism, Franz Lehar, The Merry Widow, Goethe Medal for Art and Science, Fritz Lohner-Beda, Poland, Auschwitz III, Fritz Grunbaum, Dachau, Julius Brammer, Just a Gigolo, Leon Jessel, Emmerich Kalman, The Duchess of Chicago, Alfred Grunwald, Time, Chicago Folks Operetta, The Land of Smiles, The Circus Princess, Erich Buchholz, Chelsea Morris, Ron Watkins, Gerald Frantzen, Alison Kelly, Recommended

Music, Soundboard Dec 17, 2009
The List: December 17-23, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Rise Against, the Detroit Cobras, Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang, the Snow Angels, Joan of Arc, and more
- By Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, Monica Kendrick, Deanna Isaacs, Ann Sterzinger, Bill Meyer, and Jessica Hopper
- Tags: Soundboard, Rise Against, The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar, Elizabeth Futral, Treasure Fingers, Ashley Jones, Detroit Cobras, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Snow Angels, Joan of Arc, Tim Kinsella, Wiz Khalifa, Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens, Netherfriends, Covers for Cover II, CAWC Greenhouse, Sally Timms

Blogs, Bleader Oct 8, 2008
Lyric the locavore

Lyric taps local director, designers for The Merry Widow.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Lyric Opera, Gary Griffin, The Merry Widow

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‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."

Court Theatre's Agamemnon, Ibsen's Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews

There's preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.

Unfortunate timing for the opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow, set in Paris 1900

The opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow the day after the Paris terror attacks could hardly be very merry.

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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended
Dark times in light opera

Chicago Folks Operetta celebrates composers and librettists whose livelihoods—and lives—were threatened by Nazism.

The List: December 17-23, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Rise Against, the Detroit Cobras, Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang, the Snow Angels, Joan of Arc, and more

Lyric the locavore

Lyric taps local director, designers for The Merry Widow.

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‘The Lubitsch touch’ on FilmStruck this week

Master of the romantic comedy Ernst Lubitsch is FilmStuck's "director of the week."

Court Theatre's Agamemnon, Ibsen's Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews

There's preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.

Unfortunate timing for the opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow, set in Paris 1900

The opening of Lyric Opera's The Merry Widow the day after the Paris terror attacks could hardly be very merry.

Video I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended Dark times in light opera

Chicago Folks Operetta celebrates composers and librettists whose livelihoods—and lives—were threatened by Nazism.

The List: December 17-23, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Rise Against, the Detroit Cobras, Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang, the Snow Angels, Joan of Arc, and more

Lyric the locavore

Lyric taps local director, designers for The Merry Widow.

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I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created, and the rest of this week's screenings

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Dark times in light opera