Scott C. Morgan

2 weeks ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

NEW YORK-Time is running out to catch two of New York City's most high-profile and starry stage productions featuring drag excellence. The Picture of Dorian Gray is now playing a limited engagement at Broadway's Music Box Theatre through June 29. It stars Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sarah Snook of HBO Succession fame as she takes on 26 different roles (mostly male) in director/playwright Kip Williams' high-tech adaptation of Oscar Wilde's iconic 1890 queer novel.

1 month ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

Gay Canadian writer Royce Vavrek and American composer Missy Mazzoli are finally making their Lyric Opera of Chicago debut with The Listeners, a contemporary thriller about a strange, sound-induced cult movement that rises in the U.S. Southwest. Lyric co-commissioned and co-produced The Listeners with Norwegian National Opera and Ballet (which presented the world premiere in 2022), and with Opera Philadelphia, which staged it last year.

1 month ago | windycitytimes.com | Scott C. Morgan

Opera purists often get outraged when stage directors update classics like Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 romantic tragedy La Bohème. The gorgeous imported revival of La Bohème at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is technically updated, but not as drastic as some recent approaches (for example, director Claus Guth’s Opéra National de Paris production shuttled Puccini’s artists and free spirits from 1830s Paris to a space station and the surface of the moon).

1 month ago | dailyherald.com | Scott C. Morgan

Kids explore the Twizzler “Twistology Hub” in the Hershey Super Sweet Adventure, which returns Friday, March 21, to Chicago's Water Tower Place. Courtesy of Original X Productions Sugary fun The “Hershey Super Sweet Adventure” returns for another run of family-friendly fun starting Friday, March 21, at Water Tower Place, 835 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, featuring interactive activities inspired by different kinds of Hershey-branded candies. Tickets start at $24.99. hersheysupersweetadventure.com/.

1 month ago | dailyherald.com | Scott C. Morgan

Former Elk Grove Village resident Ailyn Pérez stars as Mimi in Puccini's tragic love story “La Bohème” at the Lyric Opera of Chicago March 15 through April 12.