2024 winter arts guides: Our critics’ top picks for TV, movies, theater, music, museums and more
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From the writers, columnists and critics of A+E, here are all of the Tribune’s winter 2024 guides for arts and entertainment.
2024 winter TV preview: 15 shows to watch with a new season of ‘True Detective’ and the Nicole Kidman drama ‘Expats’
“With the Hollywood strikes resolved, 2024 promises a return to normal, or whatever ‘normal’ looks like in an increasingly unstable TV landscape,” Tribune critic Nina Metz writes. Read her full list here.
2024 winter movie preview: Our Top 10 includes the ‘Mean Girls’ musical, a new ‘Dune’ and a Bob Marley biopic
“My role in this annual list of 10 is simplicity itself,” Tribune critic Michael Phillips writes. “Based on a time-tested combination of hope, guesswork and trailers, it’s time to roll the dice and hope for a few surprises — if not in originality, then in execution, and in the spirit of teaching old brand names a few new tricks.” Read his full list here.
Top 10 for museums for winter 2024: Plenty worth leaving the house for
“Real Chicagoans know winter is the best season for museum-hopping in this city,” writes Hannah Edgar. Read their 10 picks for new or soon-closing exhibitions here.
Art in winter 2024: Plenty of new exhibits in the new year, from speculative futures to documentary pasts
“From speculative futures to documentary pasts, obsessive sculpture to coolly meditative spaces, historical Japanese design to contemporary Latinx devotional painting — there’s something for everyone at Chicago’s galleries and museums in the first few months of 2024,” Lori Waxman writes. Read her full list here.
Top 10 live music concerts in Chicago for winter 2024: Living Colour, Jamila Woods and Mary Timony
“Winter demands a certain coziness,” Bob Gendron writes. “That means many of the season’s live gems pop up at intimate clubs and smaller spaces — places where the connection between artist and fan becomes closer.” Read his 10 concert picks here.
Top 10 theater for winter 2024: From the world premiere of ‘Purpose’ to Dana Delany in ‘Highway Patrol’
There are many theater shows on offer this winter season, but critic Chris Jones has selected 10 Chicago-area shows opening between now and the end of March that look especially interesting. Read his full list here.
Top 10 dance for winter 2024: Chicago debuts and the return of NYCB, plus ambitious new works from the home team
“It’s no rest for the weary in Chicago dance, which hits the ground running this winter,” writes Lauren Warnecke. Read her top 10 picks for dance events here.
Comedy for spring 2024: Our top 10 picks, from Brett Goldstein to Ilana Glazer
If you’re looking to enjoy some comedy, and perhaps see someone you haven’t caught live before, Jerald Pierce has picked 10 comics stopping by the Chicago area. Read his full list here.
Top picks for classical music and jazz for winter 2024: Herbie Hancock, Bernard Rands and a tribute to three great jazz women
“January, and the months beyond, will keep you shuffling from one gig to the other,” Hannah Edgar writes. Read their picks for classical music and jazz events here.
