Over the past few decades, the book trade has changed – and not for the better. Old creaking shops with their secrets and mysteries hidden behind ancient bookcases and dim lights have met their demise ...

If you missed the Lyric Opera’s sold-out run of the world premiere of “The Factotum” at the Harris Theater, here’s some good news: the Lyric plans to release a film version of the show for free on its ...

After a critically acclaimed and fully sold-out run at the Harris Theater earlier this month, Lyric Opera of Chicago's world-premiere production of The Factotum, by Grammy award-winning baritone Will ...

Safe to say that a phrase like “LeBron is the G.O.A.T., man, and here are the facts” has not previously appeared on a surtitle at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, any more than Chance the Rapper has shown ...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re sitting on a bar stool, in a bar, and when I say bar I don’t mean some uptown fancy bistro with little foo-foo umbrellas in the drinks and ferns hanging from the ...

The road of excess leads, if not to the palace of wisdom, at least to a place of redemption in two modest and intriguing films that open today. "Factotum," based on the autobiographical novel of the ...