Deanna Isaacs
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Past articles by Deanna:
When melodrama meets breaking news
A seldom-performed Verdi opera at the Lyric somehow fits in with the latest royal news from England. → Read More
Flashpoints, free speech, and the law
A panel on free speech at American Writers Museum offers a framework for looking at other issues in the news. → Read More
'Are we calling this an invasion? It's really a war.'
As Chicagoans rally to support Ukraine, an expert on the former Soviet Union talks about what might happen next. → Read More
Offense intended
A couple of couches and a video player have been set up in the little balcony lobby outside the fourth floor exhibition hall at the Chicago Cultural Center. If you plop down there for a few minutes before entering the galleries to see “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott,” a retrospective spanning […] → Read More
Arts folk: what would you do with $20 million?
A big new pot of funding is available to help Chicago's cultural sector rebound. → Read More
Thompson Center survival is glad tidings
Everybody knows, especially at this season of the year, it’s a bad idea to look a gift horse in the mouth. But what if he opens it? What if he flashes you a great big horsey smile? And you just can’t look away fast enough? I’m asking because we got a wonderful gift last week, […] → Read More
What a concept!
Lyric's The Magic Flute is visually stunning, but the concept sometimes hinders the performers. → Read More
Risking all for opera
A Verdi classic, a twist on Bizet, and a doubleheader of new work kick off the opera season in Chicago. → Read More
Out of our cold dead hands
The Museum of Contemporary Photography examines America's obsession with guns in a new exhibit. → Read More
Jump back into the cultural stream
Theaters, comedy clubs, museums, galleries, and other venues are blowing off the COVID-19 shutdown dust and preparing to welcome you back this fall. Many companies are picking up with productions that were cut short in March 2020, while others have world premieres up their sleeves. We suggest calling venues ahead of time or checking their […] → Read More
Fred Hampton is having a moment
If you’ve seen Judas and the Black Messiah, the multiple-award-winning film about the 1969 murder of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton, you’ve got a picture in your head of the 4:30 AM raid in which a drugged and sleeping Hampton was killed by a barrage of police bullets. The raid was carried out […] → Read More
Ravinia opens its Music Box
Ravinia Festival opens the new multimedia immersive Music Box with Bernstein's Answer. → Read More
Groundhog Day in federal court for the Obama Center
Protect Our Parks wants to put the brakes on groundbreaking. → Read More
Looking for YOMHN with Monica Brown
In “Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones,” the artist traces ancestral legacies. → Read More
Sheboygan visionaries
Dr. Charles Smith and other artists find a new home at the Art Preserve. → Read More
Terell Johnson joins Chicago Philharmonic as executive director
The "musician-governed" organization looks to innovative programming for the future. → Read More
Lyric's al fresco Hansel and Gretel is a family-friendly treat
North Park Village Nature Center provides an ideal setting. → Read More
The art of war and more from Bill Mauldin
The Pritzker Museum highlights the late cartoonist's 50-year fight with injustice. → Read More
Lyric and Joffrey, together at last
The opera house roommates announce 2021-2022 seasons. → Read More
Helmut Jahn is gone, and the Thompson Center is for sale
Can we save his most important Chicago building? → Read More