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The Paris Opera Ballet plays at The Harris Theater for the first time in its history. top tickets Don't miss these other hot summer events. When the company hits the Harris Theater… Suite en Blanc will be on the bill. Perrot), pieces whose Romantic sensibility brought a new narrative style to ballet (not to mention tutus and pointe work). In 1929 Serge Lifar of Ballets Perhaps best known for playing Claire Huxtable on NBC's The Cosby Show, Phylicia Rashad has had a big career in the theater, too, with roles in August: Osage County, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. In 2004, she earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in A Raisin in the Sun. This summer Rashad will direct the About Face Theatre production of Paul Oakley Stovall's Immediate Family, presented at the Goodman Theatre from June 2–August 5. Tickets are $20-$54. 170 N. Dearborn St., 312-443-3800; goodmantheatre.org the classics a kick (Swan Lake, for one), he invited a wide range of choreographers to Paris, including William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Karole Armitage, Lucinda Childs, and Michael Clark. Under current director Brigitte Lefevre—who has welcomed Pina Bausch, Robyn Orlin, and Sasha Waltz to mount work on the company—the Paris Opera Ballet remains a repository of classics and a showcase for the newest work, where Coppelia and Romeo and Juliet are as passionately performed, as is Wayne Russes fame joined the company and set about McGregor's Genus. stressing the formal values of the ballet vocabulary over the crowd-pleasing components of music and décor. Anticipating the strategies of such modern dancers as Merce Cunningham, in 1935 he created Icare, which was performed to a score that was added only after the choreography had been com- pleted. When the company hits the Harris Theater ( June 26–July 1), the master's 1943 abstraction, Suite en Blanc, will be on the bill. Superstar Rudolf Nureyev directed the Paris Opera Ballet in the 1980s and in addition to giving The company's Harris Theater engagement offers a tantalizing taste of all this great troupe can do, but what a teaser. In addition to the Lifar ballet, the program includes the indestructible Giselle, Roland Petit's L'Arlésienne (set to Bizet and situated amid a Van Gogh-like landscape), and Maurice Béjart's erotically charged Bolero, performed to that maddening (or magical, depending on your point of view) score by Maurice Ravel. A living link to the dance traditions first promoted by Catherine de Medici in the 16th century and as rich in trea- sures as any museum and as creatively au courant as the latest meme, media-driven the Paris Opera Ballet occupies an unassail- able position culture Allez-y! Giselle: on the Paris Opera Ballet's bill this summer The Paris Opera Ballet will be at the Harris Theater from June 26–July 1. Tickets start at $55. 205 E. Randolph St., 312-334-7777; harristheater chicago.org MA michiganavemag.com 77 in world With her wildly successful debut album in 1996, then-19-year- old Fiona Apple punctured the complacencies of pop music with a searing sensibility that made her seem wise beyond her years. Her alt-rock, jazz-inflected numbers— with lyrics that would do Baudelaire proud—cast life as an oft-treacherous series of negotiations in which the heart and mind second-guess each other. Absent from the concert scene for five years, she is back with a new album and tour. Fiona Apple will be at The Chicago Theatre on July 10. Tickets are $45-$75. 175 N. State St., 800-745-3000; thechicagotheatre.com Summer wouldn't be summer without Lollapalooza. This year's iteration comes to Grant Park August 3-5 with a roster that includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Florence + the Machine, and The Shins. At 20, Lolla is all grown up and so is much of its audience, as evidenced by the kid-friendly adjuncts to the event and a food vendor lineup that includes The Gage, Henri, Sola, and Grahamwich. Lollapalooza is presented at Grant Park. A one-day pass is $95. 888-512-SHOW; lollapalooza.com Phylicia Rashad directs Immediate Family at the Goodman. The Red Hot Chili Peppers headline Lollapalooza at Grant Park. photography byheDrich blessing (theater); julien benhamou (giselle); mark von holDen/getty images (rashaD); k mazur/getty images (reD hot chile peppers)