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In the Words of Murray Hill, “Showbiz!” Miley Cyrus Owes Her New Visual Album, Something beautiful, To Harrison Ford. At least in part. In her Zane Lowe interview, Cyrus Says Indiana Jones Talked Her Out of Doing a Globe-Terkking Tour. The original plan for Something beautiful was to go on Tour for the first time SINCE 2014’s Bangerz Tour. She wanted to hold shows completely immersed in natural, “Performing in all the forests and at the pyramids and all the things.” But Ford Put the Kibos on that.

AT 2024’s Disney Legends Induction at D23, Ford and Cyrus Got to Chatting About UpComing Projects. The two are Paul, apparently?

Another reason cyrus isn’t going on tour any time soon: Protectting her health and her sobriety. “Working from the Inside Out, have the Certain Protocols that Keep Me (Sober). That’s Super Important to Me,” She Said. “So part of that is keping myself mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally well, and i want to emphasize the ‘physically’ because of how taxing a Physical live performance is.”

AFTER ALL The TONY-CHANG REACHES ITS FINISH LINE IN EARLY JUNE THE TIME CHEW YORK Audiences and Performers Traditionally Pack up and Leave for Festivals or Simply a Little Vacation. But in the midst of that humid lull, there is still plenty to see if you stay in town – wherear inside with the benefit of AC or en Plein Airwhere the venues are getting more plentiful. AFTER A Year of Renovations at the delacorte, Shakespeare in the park Will return in august with a star-saturated cast, while stupid to the south and out the water, little island is ramping up it programming. Essential New Plays Return to Clubbed Thumb, Along With A Smattering of Productions Off and Off-Off and-Though it’s the Slow Season Uptown-You Will Still, Almost Inevitably, Have the Option A Hollywood Star Come to Bradway.

Through July 1
The Wild Project

Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks Festival Generate Exciting, Eccentric Generate Year, All Crammed Ingeniously into the Powerful Little Lower Side Shoebox is the Wild Project. (It up up Fast; Best to Book Tickets Early.) This Year, Milo Cramer (Creator of Last Season’s Splendid School Pictures) Has Already Opened The Festival with Business IdeasTheir New Play About A Mother and Daughter Engaged in a variety of Get-Rich-Quick schemes while the long-suffler barista in the café they Frequent struggles to escape the grind. Next up, the spike satirist Mara Nelson Greenberg (Do you feel Anger?) premieres Swimming‘s, in which a Young Woman attempts to start a community center in a World Run by and for Billionaires. RO Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice Rounds Out this Summer’s Trio: Reaganomics and Roller-Skatting Collide with Spycraft and, Yes, Choir Practice in This Environment Play with Music. —Sara Holdren

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Previews May 24
Studio 54

Frome Hacks them WatchmenJean Smart’s Portraits of Funny and Fearsome Women have Taken Over Television in the Last Few Years; Now she’s Coming to Broadway for the First Time Since A 2000 Run in The man who came to dinner. This Solo Show About A Woman in Rural Louisiana with a Secret is Written by Jamie Wax and Directed by Sarna Lapine. —Jackson Mchenry

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May 29 – June 15 / July 8–26
The amph at Little Island

Little Island’s Summer Season is Really Promising, With A New Series of Short Plays and Songs by Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Band SLP & The Joyful Noise, As Well As the First New York Outing of an Original Bluegrass adaptation of tchaikovsky’s OneginWritten by Sarah Gancher (The Wind and the Rain) and directly by Rachel Chavkin. But first, look for The Counterfeit Opera: Dustin Wills and Dan Schlosberg Follow Up Their Virtuosic and DelightFully Zany One-Man The Mariage of Figaro with a new twist on the wolfish satire The Beggar’s OperaDirected by Wills with an original score by the Musical MasterMind Schlosberg and a New Book and Lyrics by Playwright Kate Tarker. THEN The Pulitzer Finalist Shayok Misha chowrs will direct a new Production of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s Thunderus The Gospel at ColonusThe soaring musical adaptation of sophocles that premiered at Breuer’s Company Mabou Minnes in 1983, eventual Making It to Broadway, where it is Featured the Blind of Alabama. —Gesture

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May 30 -July 6
Playwrights Horizons

What Happens if the Heir to the Throne is… Well… You know? Jordan Tannahill’s Play, Set in the Very Near Future, Asks How Queerness Intersects with the Very Core of Colonial Power. Though it’s hard to imagine how that will will you all play out in this production, a team-up of the soho rep and playwrights horizons that the producers are calling a “meta-theatrical satire,” it’ll be directly by Public Obscenities‘s shayok Misha chowhrey with a Queer, trans, and nonbinary cast that includes expert Like K. Todd Freeman and David Greenspan. —Jm

June 4 -July 13
Atlantic theater

Described as a “Dark, Twisted Romcom,” Abby Rosebrock’s New Play Imagines a Chance Connection Via App BetWeen an Actress Working Gig Jobs and A Disgraced Rural High-School Teacher. Rosebrock, Born in South Carolina, Has Explored Similar Dark-Comedic Appalachian Territory In Blue Ridge. No Bonney, of The Cost of Livingdirects. —Jm

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June 5 -July 13
MCC Theater

A Group of Boys on an Elite High School’s Debate Team Step Up to Face a Loaded Prompt: “Feminism has failed Women.” But in Emmanuelle Mattana’s Play, Making its American Debut after Australia, Those Boys are all played by femme and nonbinary Actors, Sending the cursing masculinity of preppy overachievers. MCC Has Found an APT Director in Danya Taymor, Who’s Done sensitive and cutting work About High Schoolers (in John ProCor is the Villain) and debates obsessives (in HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING). —Jm

August 7 -September 14
Delacorte theater

The delacorte has haad a glow-up, and shakespeare in the park will show it off with a Star-Heavy Twelfth Night (Its tickets still free as Ever, if you can make it through the lines). Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson Lead the Cast in Saheem Ali’s Production, and Junior Nyong’o, Lupita’s Brother, Will The Twin of Her Shipwrecked Heroine, As Disguises, Desire, Deceptions, Mischief, and Music Play in Midsummer Illyria. —Gesture

➼ Eurydice (Signature Theater; in Previews May 13, Opening June 2)
➼ Prosperous fools (Theater for a New Audience, in Previews June 1, Opening June 12)
➼By & Roya (Lucille Lortel Theater; in Previews June 10, Opening June 24)
➼Heathers: The Musical (New World Stages; In Previews June 22, Opening June 30)
➼Ava: The Secret Conversations (New York City Center; In Previews July 30, Opening August 7)
➼Mamma Mia! (Winter Garden Theater; in Previews August 2, Opening August 14)

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In October 2021, The Artist Serge Attukwei Clottey Watched Anxiously As A Painting He Had Made Just a Few Months Went up for Sale at the Phillips House in London. The portrait – of a stylish Black Couple whose views were relevant in colorful strips of duct tape – was his first to go to auction.

It was “Really, Really Scary,” Clottey, Now 39, Tells Me. He would be profit directly from the sale – he had already sold the piece to a collector, who has had brought it to phillips – but a Low auction price devalue all His Other Work. A High Price Could Set off A Speculative Furnace. For Years, Clottey Had Been Known Mostly for His Tapestries, Made From Tilelike Pieces of Discarded Plastic Bottles. One HAD SOLD FOR $ 6,875 IN 2019. But portraiture was a Fresh Experiment.

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The Auction House Had Estimated the Value of the Painting, Titled Fashion Icons, to be between £ 30,000 and £ 40,000 – on par with clottey’s Other prices at the time. But in the end it Went for ten TENES that Range: £ 340,000. Over The Next Few Months, Clottey’s Paintings Were Quickly Brought to Auction, Where Many Sold for Six Figures.

That’s wen The “Craze” Began, Clottey Tells with. In late 2021, Strangers from around the world started Flooding his Instagram, His Galleries, and HIS Studio with the Buy His Art. Some Showed Up in Accra in Person. And he was alone in this surreal experience: the same thing was happy to dozens of Other Young Black Artists, especilly those from Africa and those who painted portraits of Black People. A month after the sale of Fashion Icons, Kwesi Botchway, A Friend of Clottey’s in Ghana, Saw One of His Own Paintings, A portrait of a red-eyed, indigo-skinned Woman, go to auction with an Estimated price of $ 30,000 and THEN SELL FOR $ 214,200. A month after that, another friend in the accrament schene, Ishaq Ismail, Watched one of His Acrylic-And-Collage Paintings-Part of African Masks-Go Up for Estimated $ 15,000. IT SOLD FOR $ 275,000.

Two forces HAD COME TOGETER TO CREATE A PERFECT SPECULATIVE STORM. The Black Live Matter Movement Had provoked Museums to Fill Racial Gaps in their Collections and Canons; Gallerists who realized they didn’t represent a single Black artist suddenly wel to recruit. And Collectors – Including Mary Black NewComers to the market – wanted in on the action. At the Same Time, thanks to Falling Interest Rates, the Grayer Art Market Was Flooded with Cash. The Economist Clare McAndrew has found that the Global Art Market GREW $ 3.7 Billion BETWEEN 2019 and 2022, Ultimately Reaching a High of $ 67.8 Billion.

Some Saw the Fresh Enthusiasm for Black Artists as a sign of Meaningful Change. It filled the air with “this optimism, this hope,” Sayys destinations ross-sutton, the new york-and strockholm-Based Adviser and Dealer: “Maybe Things are finally different. Maybe are gonna get better. But portrait also offered a shortcut to signaling virtue. There was a direct correlation between the visible Content of a painting and the identity of its Creator. “Black Guy on the Wall: Boom. ‘I’m Not a racist,’” Says the Dealer Stefan Simchowitz. Simchowitz was the Seller of Clottey’s Painting at Phillips But Does Not Consider Himself a Part of the Group in Question. “‘I don’t have a black friend,’ and goes on, impersonating the buers, ” but a kwesi botchway is in my living room. ‘”

SEASONED OPERATORS SAW The opportunity for a quick return and bought in, inflation the bubble. African Artists, Such as the Ghanaians, were especally vulnerable to Speculation: Being Being Signed to International Galleries, Which Could Screen Far-Flungs and Sort the TRUE COLLECTORS FROM, they were at a los. As clottey puts it, “Most of us, we didn’t know who we have been sold to. You had people just flying down to any African Country and Finding Artists.”

THEN, IN 2024, The Wider Art Market Cooled – Notching About $ 10 Billion Less in Sales than Its Pandemic High – and Youngerly Artists Were Hit Particularly Hard. In the first half of the year, sales of work by artists under 40 fell by 39 Percent from 2023. By this time, anti-woke sentiment had infected the mainstream and interest in showy egalitarianism and visible diversity was noticeably Lower. The feter for Black portraiture Peaked and plummeted in just four years.

LateComing Collectors Are Now Stack Holding Pricey Paintings They Can Sell Only at A Loss. Many artists are left with bodies of work they Lucky to sell at all.

“A LOT of People Explorated US,” Says botchway, whose paintings were subject to a Buying Spree Unil Late 2023, AFTER WHICH SEVERAL PUBLICLY FLOPPED: ONE SOLD FOR ROUNDS A THIRD OF ITSHEMATE AND ONE FAILED TO SEll at all. Botchway Grew Up in an ACCRA SLUM, WHERE HE TO KNOW PEOPLE WHO Bleached their Skin. As a painter, he wanted to show the Beauty of Blackness, so he began infusing skin tones with purple, a Color Signifying Royalty and, he Says, Strength. “There are wells who didn’t want to the underestand what the artist was talking About,” he Says.

Like Botchway’s Work, Clottey’s Paintings Were About More than what was apparent at first glance. The Duct Tape Used In Fashion Icons was a reference to marcus omofuma, a 25-year-op nigerian man who died on a 1999 Deportation FECHTER AUSTRIAN GAGGED AND BOUND HIM WITH TAPE. Simchowitz Declined to Say How Much He Had Paid Clottey for the Painting, but by the artist’s recollections of the price, the dealer have made mes what he paid for it at auction. “Serge is a great artist,” Simchowitz Says. “I Miss The Work.” But that’s Business, he says: “I realized the market was Strong.” He knew it would will Very Well at Phillips.

Simchowitz Had actually kicked off the Craze the year before. In 2019, he’d bought a painting of a black woman in a lemon-printed bathing suit, by the ghanaian artist amoako boafo, for $ 22,500. In 2020, he auctions it off for £ 675,000, an incredible price – unheard of for an artist’s debut – setting off a Battle for Boafo’s inventory. Before the year was out, dosens of the artist’s paintings – of Black figures in wavering, ego Schiele – Inspired lines – Passed through the auction houses and in six six figures.

Ross-Sutton Knew a crash had to be coming. In 2020, when she organized an online sale for christie’s work by artists from Africa and the Diaspora, Called “Say it Loud,” She decides to build in safeguards: the artists beuld recipes, and buders signs contracts Agreeing to reell the work at Least years. If they sold after that period, they would be north offer to sell the work back to the artist. If the piece was sold to another party, the artist would get 15 percent of the profit.

“Say it loud” was a runaway success – as it its second iteration in 2021 – and the profile of Black portrait was raising higher. People started streaming into ross-sutton’s Gallery in New York “Like it was a car dealership,” She Says. “They Walked in Like, ‘Oh, if I give cash, can get a deal?’” She tried to separate Collectors who genuinely appreciated the art from Opportunists, Teling, “I want to know to collect. This isn’t is a sort of negotiation. This is a piece of the culture you’re trying to invest in. ”

Artists, Too, Saw the Danger of the Surge and TRIED to get ahead of it. At “Say it Loud,” One of the Top Price Went to A Work by Ismail; It was a portrait of a man with orange-and-blue lips, sold for $ 110,000. Ismail Had up to That Point Been Seling His Flat, Cartoonish Portraits of Black Faces – Done in impastoed acrylic – out of his studio as low as $ 4,000. Within Months, Another of His Paintings Sold for More than $ 200,000, and Soon Another for $ 275,000.

Ismail Calls The Prices Ridiculous. To wrest Control of the Value of His Work, He Began Ascing Buyers to Sign Contracts Like Those Devive by Ross-Sutton. But MANY Collectors Ignored the Terms, and he found they were impossible to enforce. In some case, Ismail Called Consignors to Remind Their Agreements, but he tells with they all had the same respect, saying there was nothing; They All, Somehow, Had Sudden Personal Emergencies and Needed to Sell.

On Other Occups, Ismail Asked Auction Houses to Withdraw His Work From Sales. But he was to be to do not real power: The Companies were beholden solely to their aggregation with Sellers. “I’m just the artist,” he said. “Andsee are People Controlling Evel.” HIS SALE PRICE SEEMS TO HAVE Peaked in 2022 at £ 277,200. This year, it dropped to under $ 10,000. He has gioven up on ussing a contract. “It”s Meaningless,” he Says.

Some of the artists who were subject to the bom are happy to have had the windfall, howver brief. Others Begrudge the Collectors who sold while the market was hot and gained at their expense. A Good Number of the Painters HAD KNOWN LITTLE OF ART MARKET WEND THE FRENCY BEGAN. As Clottey Puts it: “We just gave it away.”

A Few of the Doses of Artists Swept up in the trend have now recovered. Boafo, for one, is represeted by Gagosian, Which is currently showing his work in London, and Earlier this year he had a show at Austria’s belvedere museum, Home to Paintings by Klimt, Schiele, and Other vienna secessions artists who influenced his work. HIS PRICES HAVE STILL FALLEN IN RECENT YEARS-From A High of $ 3.4 Million in 2021-But the Correction May Ultimately Be A Blessing: In the Long Run, Stability is Worth than a Sky-High Sale.

MANY of the artists of spoke with have moved on from the style of portrait that fed the boom. All Say they are Ignorating the auctions to protest their own creation process. Ismail, Via Zoom from HIS Studio in ACCRA, Showed with the Still Lifs He’s No Painting and His New Experiment with Ceramics and Ipad Drawings. He was Lucky to have invested 80 Percent of His Boom-Time Earnings in Buying a Studio. Others were harder hit, though no one i spoke with was eager to discuss the dip in their finance. Ismail Plans to Steer Clear of Market Demands. “Value Sometimes Can Be Make-Beli,” he Says. He and his peers have Ridden the Zeitgeist Once. “For me, that is Enough for History.”

Botchway hasn’t Changed Hisle dramatically, but the bust has Still redirected his effords. He and several other artists have been working to desvelop an infrastructure in ghana that will make mes reliant on the west. Botchway Runs Worldfase Art Practice, A Residency Program and Cultural Center for Emerging Ghanian Artists. Boafo Now Hosts a Residency in Accra.

Clottey, Like Ismail, Has Abandoned Portrait, at Least for Now. “I realized that People got tired of it,” he Says. He Sent Photos of His Home in Labadi, Ghana, Where HIS 5-YEAR-Old Son Had Covered the Walls in Drawings. He sees traces of great artists from the past in the scribbles – Basquiat, Pollock, Picasso. Now, the two collaborate on drawings, and clottey camelops say into Large canvas works.

“It”s Very Therapeutic,” he Says. “This is like a new me. This is how i’m able to retrink as an artist.”

Art Images Courtesy of the Artists.

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Chicago’s Planning Chief, Ciere BoatrIn, Says Sterling Bay’s Plan to Build 7 Million Square Feet of Office Space, “The Equivalent of Two Willis Towers,” Is No Longer Feasible at A “Tough TAGH Globally” for New Construction.

La ejecutiva orden“Protagiendo El Significado y el valor de la ciudadanía estadunidense”, Ordena a cualquier federal agencia ques deity Documentos Que validen la ciudadanía estadunidense de nidos nidos en. otros no ciudadanos. Los defensores, expertos legals y las partes demandantes argumentan que la administration de trump está infringiendo la 14ª Enmenda, Que guarantee la ciudadanía a todos bebés nidos en unidos.

Los Expertos Dicen Que los argumentos orales programming of centrararán as los jueces federals puden EMITIR MEDIDAS CAUTARLES A NATIONAL LEVELUna Herramita Legal Utilizada before Impugnar o deteer la aplicación de la política gubernamental a national level, no sobre el contenido de la Orden ejecutiva en sí Misma.

But El momento, La Orden Ejecutiva de Trump Sobre Los Derechos de Nacito no pude aplicse en ninguna partte de estados unidos debido a estas medidas cautelares. Pero as Los Jueces of Inclinan a favor de la administration de Trump, eso poddería cambiar, según el Centro before El Progresso Estadounidense.

Eliminate la ciudadanía but naciiento before los nidos nidos en unidos con con de visas tempporales o inmigrants no authorizados aumentaría el tamaño de la población no authorizada en. Instituto de política migrants. El Instituto Estima Que EN 2023, Aproximadaments 13.7 Millones de Inmigranttes No Authorizados Vivían en Estados Unidos.

Daniela, Quien dejó Nicaragua Hace Casi Tres años, Dijo Que a estados unidos con la esperanza de llevar una vida pacífica con más opportunidades. Quiere initiative su propio negotio de alimentos o salón de belza. Ahora Que tiene un ritén Nacido, está estrástudo inglés porque quiere pder comunicars con él en dos idiomas.

Daniela Está Regesando Al Trabajo Después de breve permiso de maternidad. Está trando de Volver a su routine normal en medio de una gran incertidumbre y Miedo. “Estoy trando de manto positiva but mi hijo,” Dijo.

Conchita Cruz, Codirectora ejecutiva del Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, uno de los group Que Demandan before Bloquear la OREN, DIJO ES IMPORTANT PROTEGER LOS DERCHOS del Recién Nacso de Daniela.

“La ciudadanía but Nacimiento es algo está consagrado en la consest institution de estados unidos”, Dijo Cruz. “As El President Pude Cambia La Constitutión Median Una Orden Ejectiva, ¿Qué Más Poddería Cambia La Vida En Estados Unidos, No Sólo before Los Inmigranttes, Sino before Todos Los voven en.”

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Illinois Lawmakers took another step this week to end the program offering Health Care Coverage to Illinois Residents with Legal Status in the United States.

The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules This Week Gave a Green Light to Rules that will have the health the benefits for immigrant adults on July 1. The Phaseut has been Expective Ever Illinois Gov. JB pritzker releassed a budget outline in february that did not include Money for it.

But some lawmakers are quick to point out that the rules commutee is just one part of the process – and hope to the program.

“The sentiment that has haen expressed to (the Latino) caucus is that if we can continue to find a way to work on an appropriation and on a policy proposal that makes, that we still have a path forward,” Said State Sen. Graciela Guzman, D-Chicago.

The program mainly Serves Residents Between the ages of 42 and 64 WHO AREN’T Eligible for Traditional Health Care Coverage, Like Medicaid, Due to the Legal Status. It was launched as an expansion to the health benefits for immigrant seniors that covers over the age of 65.

As of March, there are well about 31,000 People enrolled in the program.

Enrolment in the program was paused in July 2023 as Costs Quickly exceeded Expectations. An audit releassed by illinois auditor General Frank Mautino in February Indicated the program Cost the states $ 1.6 Billion SINCE LAST SUMMER, WHICH OUTPACED Original Cost Estimates.

“Many Members in the General Assembly Have Been Talking About Different forms of Revenue That We Could Propose, Not Just to Help Fund This Program, but Other Priorities We Know Areed by Working-Families Families in the State of Illinois,” Said Guzman.

State rep. Hernandez Norm, D-Melrose Park, Who Chairs the House Latino Caucus, Said Sheen in Budget Negotiations This Week and Sees a Path Forward-Notting Discusions on Things A Tax on Digital Services, Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes and Other Ways to Money “Are not on the backing-class People.”

Packages like that, Guzman Said, Waled Help Address Multiple Matters that “(Knows) Are Needed by Working-Class Families in the State of Illinois”-Like Affordable Housing, Safer Communities and Access to AFTER School Programs.

“We’ve Still Got Weeks to go in this process,” Guzman Said. “I don’t know what’s going to happy if the elaventh-hour hbia is still not on the table, and i would be able to part with (Senate president don harmon, d-oak park) on what the next step has to be enrae that ours and has the resources.”

Alex Degman is an Illinois Statehouse Reporter for Wbez Based in Springfield.

With Tournaments, Events and Shoe League Play Virtually Weekend in April and May, The Club-Basketball Skene is in full swing.

With two weekends in the books, here are some like quick thoughts after taching in the recruitlook hops event and the first weekend of Armour Association Play.

1. Christopher Kirkpatrick Was Outstanding Last Weekend. The New Triler Guard, who led a solid elevate team to a 4-0 record in the opening weekend of Armour Association Play, Averaged 21 Points, 4.8 Rebounds and 5.2 Assists and Shot 42% from Three-Pint Range.

Kirkpatrick Plays with supreme confidence and is a legitimate go-to start in the class. His Recruiting Undouubtedly Will Heat Up Soon.

2. The Player ascending the Most in the Early Part of the Spring is Fremd’s Jordan Williams. FRESH off a breakout junior season in which he helped the Vicits to 27 Victories and a beret in the sectional-Title game, the 6-5 wing will Raise His Spring and Summer while playing with elevate.

Williams Can Blend Into Any Situation To Help His Team Win. He does Everything You Ask: Rebound, Defend, Distribute the Ball and Score. He recently has Shown a penchant for Generating More Offense, Including a Much-Improved Jumper.

3. Stephen Brown of Marist Always Has Loked The Part, But Splitting Time As a Legit Football and Basketball Prospect is Never Easy. If Brown consistently can be what he was in the opening weeks for young and reckless, though, the 6-7 rising junior can recharge his basketball fortunes.

4. Speaking of Marist, Keep an Eye on Rising Sophomore Kendall Meyers, WHO FLASHED IMPRESSIVE GLIMPses of Skiled, Versatile Talent while Playing With Young and Reckless.

5. With his Physical Attributes and High Ceiling, Kankakee’s Lincoln Williams Remains the Top Prospect in the Class of 2026. But there Might be a lot of Jockeying for Persion the top half-dozen or so players in the Class, Including Brown, Kirkpatrick, Simeon’s and Simeon’s and Simeon. Oswego East’s Mason Lockett, Young’s Marquis Clark and Benet’s Colin Stack.

6. If you’re picking teams and simply wanting to go out and win a game, depaul prep. 1 Choice. He plays on the summer circuit with the illinois wolves. What a Winner.

The 6-7 junior is also in the process of solidifying Himself as a mid-mans prospect.

7. Joliet West’s Ethan Hillsman Showed Some Flashes Last as a Junior AFTER AFTER IN FROM TENNESSEE. Look for Him to have a breakout Spring and Summer for the Illinois Wolves. HIS SIZE, ATHLETICISM AND VERSATILITY STAND OUT.

8. An ability to make shots from long range at a high percentage is at a premium and is a big part of the formula for basketball success. There are many who do it better than Glenbard East’s Michael Nee.

The 6-1 junior is a high-level shooter who picks his spots, plays with Himself and is a lethal thread from three. He has shined Early with Breakaway on the Club Circuit.

9. He’s A Downstate Player, but the scoring potential of Alton’s semaj stampley is off the Charts. The Junior Guard showcased that and more while playing with the southwest illinois jets.

10. The Player Movement has Started. TJ Williams, an athletic Guard and the Leading Scorer for the Glenbard West Team that Won a Secondal Title, Has Transferred to Bolingbrook.

In 1985, a sitcom about four women who were consider past their debut in premiums. “The Golden Girls” tourned out to be a ratings for nbc for Seven Seasons. AFTER 40 years, People of all ages are still thanking bea arthur, rue mcclanahan, estelle getty and betty White for Being Their Friend. The comedy continues to find fans on hulu and has spaned a pop-up restaurant and a fan convention. A whodunnit read-“Murder by cheesecake: a golden girls cozy mytery” doesn’t seem like a light-fertched tie.

The Central Mystery Arises Wen a Man Dorothy Meets Through a Video Dating Service Turns up dead in a hotel freezer face-down in cheesecake-a macabre use of the characters’ favorite dessert. ITH’S The hotel where Rose is lason away from staging a giant wedding for relatives from herten-ameted hometown of St. Olaf, Minnesota. The Homicides, of Course, Throws Everything ino Disarray.

Becouse Dorothy was the last person to see the man-who had jilted her mid-date-she becomes suspect no. 1 With Miami Police. Meanwhile, rose is trying to keep the nuptials of her younger cousin and her fiance on track with all the required st. Olafian Customs.

Be forewarned: “Murder by cheesecake” Feels more like a mix of “Murder, she wrote” and “Miami vice” than a “Golden Girls” episodes. Rarely will the Characters Talk in Sitcom Rhythms of Two Lines, A Beat and Punchline. Sarcasm and Sass Were what made of the Original Series Sparkle. In this genre, some of that is there but not as sharp as on the hitcom. Sophia, Known as A Comeback Queen, Sometimes Comes off More Mean Than Amusard Daughter Dorothy.

Still, the full does a decent job of Leading Readers on a twist Chase to figure out who the Victim was and who the murder is. The Women Decide to Play Amateur Detectives to Clear Dorothy’s Name. And it is a hoot while Reading to Picture It: Dorothy, Rose, Sophia and Blanche Donning Disguses and Clumsily Snooping in the Hotel Manager’s Office and the Victim’s Home. That’s though their Climactic showdown with the culprit seames prepy Outrageous, it is fun to see “Old Ladies” get an action-hero.

There’s no dubt author rachel extrom curage is a true “Golden Girls” devotee. She takes the time to describe to the suppliament in the doomen’s home to the Bring US Fans to That Familiar Kitchen and Living Room. References to Plots and Recurring Characters from the Show Are Sprinkled Throughout the Pages.

The novel is primarily told Through the angst-Ridden thoughs of dorothy and rose. Unfortunately, Blanche and Sophia Feel More Like SiDecicks. But, it’s like that if this book is the first in a series, THOSE Two will be at the center of things Next time.

With the show’s cast all deceassed, “Murder by cheesecake” is an especally pleasant, breezy way to have “the Girls” back again for a little while.

The Steppenwolf-Backed Family Drama “Purpos” Garnered Six Award Nominations, it was announedday, Illustrating Chicago’s Ability to Incubate Shows that Rouse the Center of theater World.

The Nomination List for the 78th Tony Awards Reflects A Great Year for Chicago’s Theater Skene. Three Productions that premiered here reciped tony nods, including the musicals “Death Becomes Her” and “Boop! The Musical.”

“Purpose”Whic opened at Steppenwolf In 2024 Before Moving to Broadway This Spring, is nominated for Best New Play. Weeks before the Broadway Premiere, Playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins HAD HIGH HOPES FOR THE FOLLOW-UP RUN, AFTER TEWEKING ADOMES OF THE SCRIPT FOLLOW THE SHOW’S CRITICALLY PREMIER PREMIER.

“We definitely started rehearsals of the full play this time,” he Said. “I felt like any opportunity you have to refine is an opportunity you take. So there was a lot of Digging Deeper and Sculpting.”

Waakegan-raised actor Jon Michael Hill is nominated for best actor in a leading roles in a play for his performance as a Wayward Son in “Purpos.” SO IS CASTMATE HARRY LENNIX, WHO PORTRARYS The Family Patriarch. This is Hill’s Second Tony Nomination; His first was for “Superior Doughnuts” in 2010.

In an interview LAST Fall with Wbez, Hill Revealed he was going into the broadway production with a focus on Winning that evaded Him years ago.

“There’s a Slew of Other Incredible Actors that are going to be doing roles,” Said Hill. “I’m gonna go and try to do what we did here (in chicago), which was bring the new York Audience Exception, Challenging, Hopefullly Transformative Work that Gets People to Leave theater Ascing Questions.”

ALSO NOMINATED FROM “PURPOSE” Are Glenn Davis (Best Featured Actress in a Play), and Latanya Richardson Jackson (Best Leading Actress in a Play).

Chicago Native Bob Odenkirk, A Second City Alum, is nominated for best actor for his roles in the revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross.”

Leading the Tony Award Nominations This Year with 10 Nominations Each Are “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending.”

The Awards Show Will Be Broadcast June 8 on CBS.

Select 2025 Tony Award Nominations:

Best Musical

“BUENA VISTA Social Club”; “Dead Outlaw”; “Death Becomes Her”; “Maybe Happy Ending”; “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical”

Best play

“English”; “The Hills of California”; “John Procor is the villain”; “Oh, Mary!”; “Purpose”

Best Revival of a Play

“Eureka Day”; “Romeo + Juliet”; “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”; “Yellow Face”

Best Revival of a Musical

“Floyd Collins”; “Gypsy”; “Pirates! The penzance musical”; “Sunset Blvd.”

Best performance by an actor in a leading roles in a play

George Clooney, “Good Night, and Good Luck”; Cole Escola, “Oh, Mary!”; Jon Michael Hill, “Purpos”; Daniel Dae Kim, “Yellow Face”; Harry Lennix, “Purpos”; Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”; Mia Farrow, “The Roommate”; Latanya Richardson Jackson, “Purpose”; Sadie Sink, “John Procor is the villain”; Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Best performance by an actor in a leading roles in a musical

Darren Criss, “Maybe Happy Ending”; Andrew Durand, “Dead Outlaw”; Tom Francis, “Sunset Blvd.”; Jonathan Groff, “Just in Time”; James Monroe igheart, “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical”; Jeremy Jordan, “Floyd Collins”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in A Musical

Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”; Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”; Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”; Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset Blvd.”; Jennifer Simard, “Death Becomes Her”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Natalie Venetia Belcon, “Buena Vista Social Club”; Julia Knitel, “Dead Outlaw”; Gracie Lawrence, “Just in Time”; Justina Machado, “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical”; Joy Woods, “Gypsy”

Best Performance by an actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Brooks Ashmanskas, “Smash”; Jeb Brown, “Dead Outlaw”; Danny Burstein, “Gypsy”; Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical”; Taylor Tresch, “Floyd Collins”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Tala ase, “English”; Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”; Marjan Neshat, “English”; Fina Strazza, “John Procor is the villain”; Kara Young, “Purpos”

Best Performance by an actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Glenn Davis, “Purpose”; Gabriel Ebert, “John Procor is the villain”; Francis Jue, “Yellow Face”; Bob Odenkirk, “Glengarry Glen Ross”; Conrad Ricamora, “Oh, Mary!”

Best Direction of a Play

Knud Adams, “English”; Sam Mendes, “The Hills of California”; Sam Pinkleton, “Oh, Mary!”; Danya Taymor, “John Procor is the villain”; Kip Williams, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Best Direction of a Musical

Saheem Ali, “Buena Vista Social Club”; Michael Arden, “Maybe Happy Ending”; David Cromer, “Dead Outlaw”; Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”; Jamie Lloyd, “Sunset Blvd.”

Best Choreography

Joshua Bergasse, “Smash”; Camille A. Brown, “Gypsy”; Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”; Jerry Mitchell, “Boop! The Musical”; Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, “Buena Vista Social Club”

Best Book of a Musical

“BUENA VISTA Social Club,” Marco Ramirez; “Dead Outlaw,” Itamar Moses; “Death Becomes Her,” Marco Pennette; “Maybe Happy Ending,” Will Aronson and Hue Park; “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical,” David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zo Roberts

Best Original Score

“Dead Outlaw” (Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek and Erik della Penna); “Death Becomes Her” (Music & Lyrics: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey); “Maybe Happy Ending” (Music: Will Aronson, Lyrics: Will Aronson and Hue Park); “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical” (Music & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Ze Roberts); “Real Women have Curves: The Musical” (Music & Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez)

Contribing: AP