The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

The onetime Chicago experimental playwright's 2006 play, The End of Reality, finds a fitting home with Theatre Y.

Shay Youngblood's autobiographical story of a Black girl raised by her elders in the south returns to Pegasus Theatre Chicago ...

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

Third is a SouthSide born rapper and teacher with a deep affinity for words. As a lyricist and storyteller, Third is always ...

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...

Golden Street cofounder Son Amoz wants his organization to build a spiritually rooted ecosystem for musicians, muralists, and more.

Gender Play, or What You Will at Steppenwolf is s a defiant and exuberant celebration of queerness and the Shakespearean canon.

Black Southern Women Who Love Women gets a stirring adaptation with Fleetwood-Jourdain.

The Conspirators mesh Shakespearean tragedy with local politics, and their anarchic clown style in Chicago Cop Macbeth.

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Jordan Harrison's The Antiquities is about technology, human extinction, and hanging onto the small moments in our lives that ...