Celebrity Guests

Check out Marco the Poets performance on The Dinner Party below, or listen to Marco The Poet on WBEZ. Click here. To view the full June 25 Dinner Party, click here. http://www.marcothepoet.com/ Share This!

Accumulating four-stars and being named Chef of the Year (2011) by Chicago Tribune marked Anthony Martin’s first year as executive chef/partner at renowned Progressive French restaurant Tru. His presentations, described by Phil Vettel as “so visually stunning that it seems crude to disturb their perfection for something so prosaic as eating,” have caught Chicago’s attention, Read more…

Gustavo Ramírez Sansano (Artistic Director – San Fulgencio, Spain) was appointed Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater in 2009, after directing TITOYAYA Dance Project in Valencia, Spain for the last four years. Sansano has been the recipient of numerous awards for his choreography, including first prizes at the Ricard Moragas competition in Barcelona, the Dom Perignon choreographic competition Read more…

Celebrated Chicago musical theater director Rachel Rockwell returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) to adapt and direct a 75-minute abridged production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew beginning February 2012. Rockwell staged CST’s critically acclaimed, world premiere musicals The Adventures of Pinocchio and The Emperor’s New Clothes, and her work as a choreographer has Read more…

 Sara Paretsky is joining the March 31st Dinner Party with other guests: renowned TV personality Rick Bayless, New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes, Michelin star Chef Carrie Nahabedian and host ElysabethAlfano. Joan Collaso is the opening act.  Tix available HERE. 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the first V I Warshawski novel, Indemnity Only, and Breakdown, the Read more…

Join host Elysabeth Alfano and go behind the scenes into the studio of New Yorker cartoonist, Pat Byrnes. It may not take a rocket scientist to draw cartoons, but Detroit native Pat Byrnes erred on the side of caution by getting his Aerospace degree at the University of Notre Dame. He joined General Dynamics–Convair as Read more…

Join Elysabeth Alfano on Fear No ART for candid interviews with authors Sara Paretsky on Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Mudhubhuti on Richard Wright and photographer Art Shay on Nelson Algren during the inaugural Chicago Literary Awards in 2010. The 2010 Chicago Literary Awards honored Saul Bellow, Studs Terkel, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Nelson Read more…

Join host Elysabeth Alfano as she goes behind of the scenes of DPR Art Rescue to learn the conservation techniques that bring precious artwork back to life. Disaster Planning & Response Art Rescue Evacuation: Time is crucial during a disaster and a quick response becomes the decisive element of preventing the disaster from becoming a Read more…

Host, Elysabeth Alfano, speaks with Chief Curator of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Michael Darling.  Join them as they stroll through the current exhibition, “Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection”, and discuss some of the greatest artists in the MCA collection, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.   In addition, Mr. Darling talks about Read more…

In this interview with Elysabeth Alfano of Fear No ART, Jeff Zimmerman discusses the making of his mural at Chicago’s Oak Street Beach. A native of Chicago, Jeff Zimmermann has achieved national and international recognition for his large scale murals featuring painted images of contemporary pop culture and sensitively rendered portraits. Zimmermann’s pop-culture references range Read more…