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Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday celebrations are happening in Chicago-area restaurants, bars, cultural spaces and more. Here's our list of everything you need to know.
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Highlights include Pina Bausch’s “Rite of Spring” and Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo in “common ground[s]."
A Noise Within's sensory-friendly "Christmas Carol," a triumphant return of Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre and the best gallery gift shops.
Pure, grand-scale magic. That is the only way to describe the Joffrey Ballet’s glorious production of “The Nutcracker,” which breaks the mold of the traditional version by being set against the grandeur of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair.
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“The Nutcracker” is so much more than a series of steps. It’s about the dancing, sure. It’s also children dressed in their holiday finest seeing ballet for the first time.