Deanna Isaacs

Tricia Romano's rollicking oral history of the Village Voice is catnip to journalists and anyone who has loved alternative weeklies.

Want to move people to action? Call in the designers. Need to right the ship in a hurry? Same. On the Sunday in July when Joe Biden announced he was passing the torch, the Biden/Harris design team leapt into emergency responder mode, rebranding the campaign within hours with a “Harris for President” logo fashioned to […]

The departing general director, president, and CEO of Lyric Opera leaves us with thoughts on the highlights and challenges of his tenure.

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum expands with the newly restored John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium next door.

Haymarket Opera's La Resurrezione brings new life to Handel's 1708 piece.

Howard Reich's reporting in the Chicago Tribune about a Vietnam vet and looted Nazi art inspired Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's new opera.

The new film by Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson celebrates the cathartic power of theater and the talent of Chicago's theater community.

The cicadas are coming, and the entomologists are stoked.

"Voices of Genocide" opens as activists at Northwestern and University of Chicago demand divestment from Israel.

Velvet Goldmine, at the corner of Division and Damen, has relatively affordable midcentury modern furniture and accessories.