As BroadwayWorld first reported in 2020, Children of Eden has been circling a pre-Broadway run in Chicago, which was derailed multiple times by the pandemic. Now the show will get a staged concert at Broadway In Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre
“Ghost Variations,” a chamber opera streaming in three pay-what-you-can screenings June 4 through 6 under the auspices of Thompson Street Opera, resists more than 150 years of tropes. Here, Robert Schumann’s struggle with mental illness isn’t shunted out of sight or caricatured into something malevolent; his hallucinations are sometimes frightening, sometimes darkly humorous, but always humanizing.