Joffrey Announces Final Season at Auditorium
Photo by Tatyana Perrault The Joffrey Ballet has announced its 2019-2020 season featuring, its last at the Auditorium Theatre. The company will move to the Lyric Opera in the fall of 2020. The company will begin its 64th season with Northern Ballet Artistic Director Cathy Marston’s modern re-telling of JANE...
Review | THE NUTCRACKER at Joffrey Ballet
Victoria Jaiani & Miguel Angel Blanco | Photo by Cheryl Mann By Sheri Flanders The genre of dance is criminally underrated among mainstream audiences, yet for the uninitiated, the Joffrey Ballet’s NUTCRACKER is a wonderful annual entrée to the beauty of the artform this holiday season. Set against a reimagining...
IATSE and Lyric Opera of Chicago Agree to Labor Cuts
By Jason Epperson Lyric Opera of Chicago and representatives of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) announced today that Stagehands Local 2, Wardrobe Local 769, Hair and Make-Up Local 476 and Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 750 have entered into new multi-year labor agreements with the Opera. Agreement...
InkBlots 08.18.18 — HAYMARKET Marches On
Our new InkBlots series will let you in on the latest news, extensions, promotions and rumors that didn’t make it into an article in the previous week. We’re dropping them every Saturday morning. Enjoy with brunch!
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Joffrey Ballet
Take the overall feeling of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, blend in a little Salvador Dali, a touch of Roger Waters. and Pink Floyd, a pinch of Monty Python, and, as my companion said, “a little Molly,” and you have some idea of the experience of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
Joffrey Lands $1 Million Grant, Expands Staff
The Joffrey welcomes Mimi de Castro, Associate Director of Corporate Sponsorships; Christina Grant, Director of Audience Development; and Matt de la Peña, Director of Communications
Joffrey Ballet Leaves Auditorium for Lyric Opera House
Joffrey will become the resident dance company at the Lyric Opera House at the start of the 2020/21 Season, the companies announced today. The agreement comes as the two companies prepare to perform together for the first time in John Neumeier’s production of Gluck’s “Orphée et Eurydice.”
Chicago’s Best Shows of 2016
As an amazing year of performance in Chicago comes to an end, we’re wrapping up our picks for the best productions of 2016. We asked our critics which of the 125 shows we reviewed this year have really stuck with them, and here are their favorites.
Design Shines in Joffrey’s NUTCRACKER
This is a reimagined (and what I love most is) Chicago-centric design that preserves all the elements of The Nutcracker’s much-loved tradition but breaks away from past Robert Joffrey productions.
Joffrey to Live Stream Rehearsal for World Premiere NUTCRACKER
The Joffrey Ballet will offer a glimpse into the rehearsal studio when it streams a live, first look at the world premiere production of THE NUTCRACKER, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.