Oak Park resident Andrea Casarrubios is earning recognition for playing music, and for creating it. She is an in-demand cello soloist and an acclaimed composer, who has created commissioned works…
Most of Cameron Mackintosh’s monster Broadway hits — “Cats, “Les Miserables,” “Miss Saigon,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Mary Poppins” — are decades old now. But two things have…
As far as local performing arts went, 2025 could be oddly charmed. New venues opened; huge, ambitious festivals took off like jetliners; halls filled up and sold out. Those are…