I cover arts, culture, and food in Chicago. I write the arts and culture report The Big Ticket for @CrainsChicago, weekly on Wednesdays.
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On the newest Daily Gist, Crain's contributor @GrahamMeyer talks with host @amyguth about the can’t -miss arts and culture events in the month ahead, including the kickoff to summer festival season, a revival of a classic musical and more. ow.ly/oabV50OzCOo
Graham Meyer retweeted
On the latest Daily Gist, Crain's contributor @GrahamMeyer talks with host @amyguth about the can’t-miss arts and culture events in the month ahead. ow.ly/9gqG50O5NQ8
Graham Meyer retweeted
On the newest Daily Gist, contributor @GrahamMeyer talks with host @amyguth about the can’t-miss arts and culture events in the month ahead, including an exhibition at the Field Museum with artifacts from the Stone Age. ow.ly/NfNL50NtYoe
The Big Ticket, already out for a couple of days, has a lot to tell you about stuff you should book for this weekend and beyond. Not featured: a fragment of the conversation between me and @chicagoshakes' Barbara Gaines about how to select a melon. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
The Big Ticket! Great publicity picture of Alvin Ailey running with it. Unfortunately it is a bit misleading, as they do have to touch the floor in the course of the performance. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Graham Meyer retweeted
In the newest Daily Gist, Crain's contributor @GrahamMeyer talks with host @amyguth about the can’t-miss arts and culture events in the month ahead. ow.ly/RVzr50N477K
This week's Big Ticket is out, with a main item about the Hamburg Ballet's Glass Menagerie @HarrisTheater. I hadn't known the history of the play's Chicago debut and championing by Claudia Cassidy before. A fun excuse for some archive-diving. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
The Big Ticket is out, headlining the Dalí exhibition opening @artinstitutechi. My editor commended me for restraining myself from saying "Hello, Dalí." I also managed not to describe the end of the exhibition as Dalí partin'. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Hi culture lovers, some ideas of culture you might love are in this week's Big Ticket, including the announcement of the extension of Cabaret @PorchlightMT, which I can tell you I did love.
Hey, look, it's The Big Ticket! Including the second half of the fraternal-twins Brontë plays opening @gglasstheatre and the link to the main item, about @LyricOpera's The Factotum. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Graham Meyer retweeted
In the newest Daily Gist, Crain's contributor @GrahamMeyer—who writes the weekly Big Ticket column—talks with host @amyguth about can’t-miss arts and culture events for the month ahead. ow.ly/l1Sx50MEAPk
Please enjoy this week's Big Ticket. New shows @GoodmanTheatre and @chicagoshakes, comedy @TheDenTheatre, a good piano recital . . . there's a reason this Ticket is Big. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Also featured in this week's Big Ticket is Last Out, a touring play playing @SteppenwolfThtr that deploys veteran actors, but in a different sense of "veteran" than that phrase usually means. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Once when I previewed an upcoming Gabriela Montero performance, I encouraged attendees to suggest the theme to Angry Birds as a seed for improvisation. I recently learned that kindred spirit @igudesman asked her to do exactly this for a video!
For the cryptic crossword types, @MerriamWebster uses the word "stomatopod" to describe the squilla, and that is S + TOMATO + POD.
The Big Ticket for this week has dropped, with two mentions of the auspicious year of 1979. Also new this week, the lead item has been spun off into a standalone story. chicagobusiness.com/big-tick…
Here is the standalone story, about Hamid Dehghani of @NorthlightThtr's Andy Warhol in Iran, standing alone. chicagobusiness.com/arts-ent…
Brushing up on Albert Herring in advance of @ChicagoOpera's upcoming production, I saw there was a couple named Sid and Nancy and thought, Haha! Imagine what Benjamin Britten would have thought! And then realized that he and the Sex Pistols were actually contemporaries.