Stories
Is it luck? Preparation? Skill? David Govertsen thinks it’s a little bit of each that has guided him to some of the city’s biggest stages.
Stephen Raskauskas | February 15, 2018
Stephen Raskauskas | February 14, 2018
Michael San Gabino | October 28, 2019
Hosted by Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, the program presents music from movies that explore the supernatural, the science-fictional, and the demonic (with a few laughs along the way).
Keegan Morris | October 24, 2019
To conceal that the book’s author was a woman, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under a pen name. Choreographer Cathy Marston feels the book was revolutionary: “It truly was groundbreaking for a woman to write about her emotions and station in life with such honesty.”
Playlists
Kerry Frumkin | February 9, 2018
Hear an interview with Leontyne Price recorded in 1987 after an appearance at Chicago's Symphony Center.
Stephen Raskauskas | February 8, 2018
Learn about the lute from Nigel North, one of the world’s most acclaimed lutenists, who has been at the forefront of reviving music that once languished on library shelves.
Stephen Raskauskas | February 7, 2018
COT presents a world-premiere opera, Elizabeth Cree, by the team of composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, who together created the Pulitzer-winning opera Silent Night.