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Performing Arts March 23, 2018CHICAGO—Missing are the glittering ballrooms, lavish costumes, and the panoramic views of huge estates that create the 19th-century ... -
The Classics January 2, 2018For Stuart Holt, opera is awe-inspiring storytelling and, in many ways, the Olympian limb of the classical arts. ... -
Performing Arts December 7, 2017For choreographers relying on the same original libretto of 'Nutcracker,' sharp variations in style account for different pleasures. -
Performing Arts December 5, 2017Lauren Gunderson’s heartfelt and intelligent “Book of Will” is built around the few facts known about the 1623 ... -
The Classics November 28, 2017When Susan Woodard, professor emeritus of music, was just beginning her teaching career, she heard a colleague declare, ... -
Arts & Culture November 1, 2017CHICAGO—The Catholic Art Guild has set out to restore the sacred role of art in Roman Catholic churches, ... -
Fine Arts October 23, 2017The Art Renewal Center (ARC) is dedicated to promoting realistic art. Its salon exhibition, which exhibited at the ... -
Fine Arts October 19, 2017For those visual artists, designers, or architects who perhaps feel a bit out of step with much of ... -
Arts & Culture October 4, 2017The Metropolitan Opera Guild has received encouraging feedback about its opera podcasts. -
Fashion September 24, 2017Milliner Jennifer Ouellette has combined a concern for the environment and the livelihood of her staff with painstaking, ... -
Arts & Culture September 19, 2017As soprano Elisa Brown listened to the ancient two-stringed erhu during a performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts several years ... -
Fine Arts August 27, 2017For fine arts painter George Ceffalio, the importance of classical realistic art is self-evident. "You see [realistic art] ... -
Performing Arts August 13, 2017Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and ... -
Arts & Culture July 25, 2017OAKBROOK, Ill.—There's nothing inspiring about D. L. Coburn's 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning (1978) drama "The Gin Game." But Drury ... -
Arts & Culture July 12, 2017Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is so much more than just an unrequited lover, as director James DeVita’s ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER July 3, 2017Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER May 25, 2017Classical music has the capacity to connect with people deeply and to transcend cultural differences, says conductor Tim ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER May 18, 2017The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase. -
Arts & Culture April 25, 2017The act of creation—making something from nothing—is remarkable. Survey after survey reveals what a valued trait creativity is ... -
News April 21, 2017If anyone doubts that our culture is obsessed with creativity, a quick survey of the available literature on ... -
Audience Comments April 13, 2017"It was wonderful. It was an experience that I won't forget for a very long time. It took ... -
Audience Comments April 13, 2017“[Shen Yun] enhanced my knowledge of the [Chinese] culture because I love the stories. I've never heard them ... -
News March 16, 2017Art collector and businessman Fred Ross had completed his master's in art just a few years before when, ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER March 13, 2017Cassia Harvey has written more than 160 books for cello, viola, and violin. With a methodology that trains ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER February 26, 2017People show up at an apartment, some strangers and some friends. At first there's the typical uncomfortable ice ... -
01-SITE FEATURES February 13, 2017Most of us never think about how space is designed in buildings, but a theatrical set design is, ... -
10- ARTS, ENT, STYLE, LIFE, DINING, OTHER January 31, 2017Author, radio host, pianist, and arguably the nation's foremost expert on 20th-century pianists David Dubal had spent the morning practicing ...
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