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Cristian Mǎcelaru: Who Decides If a New Work Succeeds?
"When an audience does not connect with a new piece, 99% of the time, it's the fault of the performer."
Best Bets: March 2nd – March 8th
Bill Frisell celebrates his 75th birthday and America begins to celebrate its 250th.
New In Music This Week: February 27th
Sarah Kirkland Snider's "Forward Into Light" and Daníel Bjarnason's "The Grotesque & The Sublime" are both top picks this week
Playwright Beth Hyland’s Winter of Reckoning
"The things in your work that you end up feeling happiest with, you don’t know where they come from. The things you feel least happy with are the ones where you know it came from your brain."
Mandy Gonzalez: Fearless, Personal and Still Walking Forward
"I’ve become very comfortable just being myself and bringing the audience along with me."
Best Bets: February 23rd – March 1st
Two world premiere plays and a world premiere musical
New in Music This Week: February 20th
John Lennon wrote “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” My apologies for the absence of this weekly column for a few...
Phil Geoffrey Bond Chooses the Moment
"The older you get, the more your heart gets broken, the more you realize about life, the deeper the music gets. "
Best Bets: February 16th – February 22nd
Jefferson Mays stars as Salieri in Pasadena Playhouse's production of "Amadeus"
Best Bets: February 2nd – February 8th
Attend the tales of "Sweeney Todd," "The Dance of Death" and some great music
Composer Jeff Beal And His Not So Meek and Mild “Beatitudes”
"I wish it didn’t feel so current, but it does. That urgency was very much part of what propelled me forward."
Suzy Eddie Izzard: Living Inside Hamlet
"In stand-up, I fight for the thickness of a laugh. In 'Hamlet,' I fight for the thickness of silence."
Patrick Page on Shakespeare’s Villains, and the Truth Theater Can Still...
"What Shakespeare does is dismantle the myth of the perfect hero. When he dismantles the myth of pure evil, he’s also forced to dismantle the myth of pure good."
BEST BETS: January 19th – January 25th
The 8th Annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival begins this week
New In Music This Week: January 16th
Marilyn Maye's first album in 10 years tops this week's list
BEST BETS: January 12th – January 18th
Isabel Leonard, Patrick Page, Julia Bullock and more are featured this week
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"When an audience does not connect with a new piece, 99% of the time, it's the fault of the performer."
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Marilyn Maye: The Taylor Swift of Cabaret Singers
"I don't know anything else but this business in my life. That's how I make my living and it's very important to me to do what I do and do it well."
Beth Morrison: Twenty Years Forward
“This project has allowed me—really for the first time—to feel proud.”
Patrick Page on Shakespeare’s Villains, and the Truth Theater Can Still...
"What Shakespeare does is dismantle the myth of the perfect hero. When he dismantles the myth of pure evil, he’s also forced to dismantle the myth of pure good."
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