DETROIT - Margaret Garner, the fugitive slave made famous in Toni Morrison's "Beloved," died some 150 years ago. This month, with a little help from the Mchigan Opera Theatre and Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, "Margaret Garner," the opera created by Morrison and composer Richard Danielpour, takes a major step toward immortality. It returns to the Detroit Opera House Oct. 18-25, before heading to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre Nov. 1-9.
[Regina Taylor], gorgeous in bright red, was escorted to the live 39th annual televised showcase in Beverly Hills, Calif. by bon vivant Les Coney, vice president of Meisrow Financial Corp. and former Goodman board chair. . . A fave pal, Atty. Jerome Butler, chief operating officer at the Ill. Dept. of Human Services and former Chicago Defender vice president, has perhaps embarked on a brand new career. Butler provided the "voice over" for the video presentation "Can You Believe?" at the Chicago Urban League's Annual Report Luncheon at the Sheraton-Chicago. . .Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theatre's founder and executive director, receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at "Showtime 2008," a celebration of Chicago theater, on March 31 at the Auditorium Theatre hosted by the League of Chi...
July 2 offers a unique way to spend part of the Independence Day holiday with actor Robert Vaughn who will appear in his role as Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre on Michigan Avenue at Congress Parkway. Vaughn, who starred in the one-man show "FDR" on HBO, will relive FDR's New Deal for America speech which he gave as he accepted his first presidential nomination at the Chicago Stadium on the same date 75 years earlier.
[Singer Denyce Graves], internationally renowned mezzo-soprano, will once again sing the title role in the new landmark American opera making its Chicago debut at the acoustically perfect Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, Nov. 1-9, 2008. [Margaret Garner], with a libretto by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison, is based on the true story that inspired her novel Beloved. Garner, a fugitive slave in pre-Civil War America who killed her own daughter in 1856 rather than see the child returned to slavery, was charged with "destruction of property. Margaret Garner is a compelling, heart-wrenching story of a fugitive slave who upon being surrounded by U.S. marshals vowed to take the lives of her children and herself, rather than see her family returned to slavery. As her ...
Last Thursday night R&B Neo-soul artist Jill Scott moved a beautifully mixed crowd of more than 2,800 people to their feet at the "Music Matters Concert: Singers and Songwriters Unite Against Violence," a benefit show for Chicago Foundation for Women's "What Will It Take?" antiviolence initiative. A Grammy-winner, Scott performed a number her hit singles, including Golden and Cross My Mind as well as upcoming songs. Scott spoke to the crowd between songs about the importance of ending violence against women. She shared a personal story: "I remember waking up in a blanket" at age four as her mother fled from an abusive relationship to go live with Scott's grandmother. She called the concert "an important night" for Chicago to come together to try to prevent violence against all women...
..., but she was able to fill the Auditorium Theatre to help prevent violence against women and...
Court Theatre at the University of Chicago opens its 2006-2007 season in the Abelson Auditorium, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. in Hyde Park, with Raisin, adapted from Lorraine Hansberry's legendary play A Raisin in the Sun. Unlike the musical's original setting, which ranged out of the Younger household to a .local church and the streets of Chicago, [Charles Newell]'s staging roots has its action in the [Ruth Younger] family's apartment. Following A Raisin in the Sun's historic Broadway production in 1959, the musical adaptation, Raisin made its Broadway debut in 1973 with a book by Robert Nemiroff, husband of the late playwright and Charlotte Saltsburg, music by Judd Woldin and lyrics by Robert Brittan.
Buffalo knows Louis Sullivan best for the glorious Guaranty Building, arguably this architectural mecca's most celebrated structure. He is also frequently cited as one of the three greatest pioneering American architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Sullivan mentored, and H.H. Richardson. Buffalo is the only city to boast major buildings from each man.
... first feature-length documentary on the Chicago-based architectural titan, and his principled pur... attention on the spectacular Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. In Buffalo, the filmmakers use...
Annie" for Whitney Players Theater Company's production, 6-9:30 p.m. Thursday, free, info: 203-281-6007, Thornton Wilder Auditorium, Miller Library Complex, 2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden; 203-287-2546. "Chicago" for Southington Summer Stage's production, 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, by appointment only, free, but if selected, there is a fee to participate in the program, info: 860-841-4353, Southington Community Theatre, 1237 Marion Ave., Marion section of Southington; 860-276-1961. "Footloose" for Cheshire's Comedy IOI production, 5-8 p.m. today, are free; if accepted, the two-month program is $75 for Cheshire residents, $100 for nonresidents, info: 203-980- 4375, Artsplace, 1220 Waterbury Road, Cheshire; 203-272-2787.
It was quite evident that the dancers performing Peter llyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway, staged by the Joffrey Ballet, reached an artistic plateau. A Macy's Chicago-based team of visual artists collaborated as they provided a spectacular array of scenery on stage and with costumes. The amazing production proved to be a significant memorial tribute to Robert Joffrey and his great vision of The Nutcracker. For over two hours, the combination of genuine talent, complete with dazzling costumes and consummate artistic choreography, balanced with the lush melodies and rhythms of Tchaikovsky's score. It was quite evident that the dancers performing Peter llyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress Parkway, s...
Tenor Rodrick Dison and soprano Alfreda Burke return to the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University stage January 16-17 for the fifth "year of the acclaimed Too Hot to Handel· The Jazz-Gospel Messiah. Joining the soloists on stage are 200 additional musicians, a 50-piece symphony orchestra and a jazz ensemble under the baton of Conductor Suzanne Mallare Acton.
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