In a digital landscape saturated with subscription paywalls and premium content, it’s easy to overlook the value of a ...

The Chicago Blues Festival brings out the best in the local scene all weekend—and here are a few dozen shows to prove it.

Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the ...

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid ...

Connective Thread,” curated by Michelle Alexander at Ivory Gate Gallery, gathers works by women artists that acknowledge ...

When those emotions include angry despair at the state of your whole fucking species, you’ve got to play hard enough to shake ...

She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.

Universities are prime sites of dissent, critique, and critical thinking. And this is exactly what the Trump administration ...

Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...

Matt & Ben imagines the bromance of Damon and Affleck right before Hollywood success (literally) falls in their laps.