CHICAGO ARTS AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

At Lyric Opera of Chicago, musical beauty and an enveloping final chorus bring an enslaved scholar’s story into unsettling proximity with the present. By Elizabeth Jia Final dress rehearsal attended: October 20, 2026 | Lyric Opera of Chicago CHICAGO — Near the end of Omar, the chorus moved into the auditorium. Singers entered the aisles, and voices reached us from several directions. The opera had spent the evening telling a nineteenth-century story. Suddenly, that story seem

The spectacle is extraordinary. But does the musical itself rise to the same heights? By Elizabeth Jia Performance reviewed: October 25, 2026 | Palace Theatre, New York NEW YORK — When the vampires drop from the bridge in The Lost Boys, the stage seems to open beneath them. One body disappears into darkness, then another. I knew I was watching a carefully controlled illusion. That knowledge was of remarkably little use. The Lost Boys Playbill Michael Arden’s Broadway adaptati