‘Hamilton’ Connects With 1,900 CPS Students and Teachers Last week, close to 1,900 students and teachers from 30 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) attended the matinée performance of the musical Hamilton at Broadway In Chicago’s The PrivateBank Theatre. This was the first series of 10 all-student matinée performances launched in 2017 that will treat 20,000 Chicago-area […]
Deborah Cox: Lighting up Broadway Mary L. Datcher Arts & Entertainment Editor The music business can be a funny one as many talented and gifted singers fight for a chance to be discovered or carve a place of notoriety. For over the last three decades, we’ve witnessed gradual changes as technology has forced record companies […]
Q&A: The Phantom of The Opera’s Star Derrick Davis Chicago has become one of leading cities for the theatre world with Broadway in Chicago at the helm. The transformation of revitalizing the city’s beautiful vintage theatre houses back to their grandeur of hosting musical productions is a wonderful gift to thousands of visitors from around […]
What I loved about Hamilton was the clever ability to tell the story of our country’s history in structuring the most important blueprint of our financial government — in a modern-day, culturally rich way — through various forms of Black music. Who knew what to expect being that there was so much fanfare around this […]
Chicago has a rich history of being one of the lead cities in performing arts and culture,cultivating a long line of talented African-American iconic figures…
