Fashion designer/culinary artist Tommy Walton to speak Nov. 20 at Opera HouseBy Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Tommy Walton, a multi-faceted fashion designer, culinary artist, educator, and fan favorite of the cooking […]
Tribune News Service columnist Heidi Stevens to speak at Opera House By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Heidi Stevens has been a columnist for the Chicago Tribune since 1998, perhaps best known […]
Flower Magazine publisher Margot Shaw to talk on ‘looking at life through a botanical lens’ By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Margot Shaw, founder of Flower Magazine, will appear at the Woodstock […]
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Eig coming to Opera House By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Jonathan Eig – journalist, biographer, and winner of a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for “King: A Life,” a biography […]
By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com What do Martha Stewart, Maya Angelou, Judy Collins, Beverly Sills, Gene Siskel, and Bill Kurtis have in common? They have all been presenters of Woodstock’s Creative […]
Renovations shorten Creative Living Series Planned renovation of the Opera House will shorten the 60th anniversary season of the Creative Living speaker series sponsored by the Woodstock Fine Arts Association. […]
By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Oscar Tatosian, director of Oscar Isberian Rugs in Evanston, traces his passion for the art of Oriental rugs to “a love for family, heart and legacy.” […]
By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com Broadway musicals, according to Michael Weber, are a fusion of “opera … operetta … [and] the world of American vaudeville.” Weber, artistic director of Chicago’s Porchlight […]
By Eileen Millard news@springgreen-pigeon-339172.hostingersite.com “I was thinking about doing a book about the fabulous dressmaking during the Gilded Age,” said Alison Hawthorne Deming, award-winning poet, essayist and nonfiction author. “I […]
Creative Living speaker weaves fashionable tale Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming will be the next speaker in the Creative Living series at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the […]
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