The Joliet Junior College Community Band will present its annual Winter Concert on Sunday, Dec. 1 in the Fine Arts Theatre at Main Campus.

Did you know that it’s illegal to give an instant ticket to a minor? The holidays are here! Have you made your list? Have you checked it twice? Holiday instant tickets from the Illinois Lottery are a fun and easy ...

Multi Grammy Award winning musician and vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse presented in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theatre September 2019 was an expansive one-woman oratorio that explored the taboo scenario of the female artist as both predator and poet. ...

During the months November and December, Gallery Seven, in the historic Gaylord Building in downtown Lockport will host an exhibit of the paintings of Lemont artist Dean Nikolay Thompson. Thompson is a 1973 graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago ...

Sony Pictures Classics Pain and Glory is the eighth collaboration of Spanish filmmaking legend Pedro Almodovar and award-winning actor Antonio Banderas. This is the eighth collaboration for the two, albeit after nearly a decade-long hiatus. Time apart may benefited the ...

THE PRINCE (EL PRINCIPE) is a dark, raw film by Chilean director Sebastian Munoz that takes us directly into the harsh life behind bars in the notorious San Bernardo prison outside Santiago, Chile. The time is around 1970, prior to ...

History was made at the 18th Tribeca Film Festival. 'Burning Cane', the debut feature narrative by then 19 year old director Phillip Youmans made him the first African American to win the coveted Founder's Award for Best Narrative Feature, he ...

A city, two households, and a hatred so old that no one remembers its cause. Defying the barriers forged from their families’ enmity, Romeo and Juliet risk everything for love. Shakespeare sets his immortal tale against a community uprooted by ...

Taut and riveting from the overture to the final curtain, Lyric Opera’s Premiere production of Jake Heggie’s opera in two acts in English (with projected English subtitles), Dead Man Walking, is a fast-paced journey of conscience and redemption. The libretto ...

Joliet - Celebrate the start of the holiday season with your friends and family from the University of St. Francis (USF)! Join USF on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019 for the Joliet City Center Partnership’s annual “Light Up the Holidays” Parade ...

Verdi's tragic opera Luisa Miller is getting the star treatment after 37 years of neglect in a stately new production by Francesca Zambello (artistic director Washington National Opera) in the Ardis Krainik Theatre of the Civic Opera House. The production ...

In the opening scenes of Edward Norton's brilliant homage to his hometown, Motherless Brooklyn, for which he wrote the screenplay, based on the detective novel by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday-1999), we see him anxiously tugging away at a loose thread on ...

This year marked the 50th anniversary year of Apollo 11s historic moon landing. Chicago's Symphony Center was the launching pad for this city's celebration with a stirring concert of The Galaxy's Greatest Hits from Anthony Pratt and the Melbourne Symphony ...

*LARA* Director: Jan-Ole Gerster Germany It’s Lara’s 60th birthday. She is alone. She is divorced. She has just retired from that job, where she was respected but not liked. All her youthful energies had been directed to becoming a concert ...