From a small-town studio in California to taking on lead roles in a world-renowned ballet company, Jonathan Dole has had many adventures bringing him to the wonderland we call Chicago and a home at the Joffrey Ballet. This month, he dances two major roles in Christoper Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As the first American […]
A growing coalition of civic leaders in Chicago is advancing a bold, scalable concept called the “Cultural Stadium” — one that could generate transformative wins not just for Chicago, but for any American city with world-class cultural and sports assets. What Is a Cultural Stadium? It’s a framework for uniting and expanding the already significant […]
For those of us who grew up with Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness as the soundtrack to our adolescence, its arrival this November on the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage doesn’t feel like a stretch, it feels like a full-circle moment. Thirty years later, the sprawling double album that always sounded like a symphony […]