Kyle MacMillan

1 week ago | wbez.org | Kyle MacMillan

For Giancarlo Guerrero, beginning a major new post in Chicago as artistic director and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival is like coming home. Chicago was where the Grammy Award-winning Costa Rican conductor solidified his foothold in the United States and received his essential training as a conductor at the feet of Victor Yampolsky, Northwestern University’s now-retired director of orchestras.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

If someone were to suggest the idea of a balletic adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s classic, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” what elements would you want it to have? Zany merriment? Crazy costumes? Kaleidoscopic colors? Abundant fun? All those qualities and more can be found in the Joffrey Ballet’s Chicago premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s delightful adaptation. It opened Thursday evening at the Lyric Opera House and continues for 13 additional performances through June 22.

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

For Giancarlo Guerrero, beginning a major new post in Chicago as artistic director and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival is like coming home. Chicago was where the Grammy Award-winning Costa Rican conductor solidified his foothold in the United States and received his essential training as a conductor at the feet of Victor Yampolsky, the now-retired director of orchestras at Northwestern University.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kyle MacMillan

In 2021, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn began a series of multifaceted, high-profile exhibitions every other summer centered on artists it hoped would be surefire draws — Frida Kahlo and Andy Warhol. This year’s installment, “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World,” which runs through Sept. 21, takes a different turn and is arguably a riskier venture because the lure is not a famous artist’s name or movement.