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Contretemps Contemporary Ballet challenges the stereotypes of the form in Heat Lightning.
Ethereal visions of swans, sylphs, shades, and sugarplums? A way of mov…
A playwright's playwright, Sally Nemeth planted seeds of encouragement and collaboration.
Editor's Note: Sally Nemeth, an early force in the growth of Chicago as…
An immersive art exhibition in DuPage County brings the Sistine Chapel to the former site of the Sears store at Oakbrook Center.
It had been almost exactly 30 y…
TimeLine Theatre unveils plans for their new Uptown home, while their longtime managing director transitions to a new role.
TimeLine Theatre's mission is to pre…
On play, creativity, and public pandemic art
A hand-drawn sign in crayon, taped to the inside of a window, thanking nurses and doctors.…
"Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture" at CAC offers big pictures and tiny buildings.
It's sad but true that we're never so much appreciated as when we're newly dead…
Jocelyn Bioh's smart comedy at the Goodman examines cliques, colonialism, and colorism.
From the Heathers to the Plastics, teenage girls and their cliques have p…
Changes in faces, places, and union rules might carry harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater.
There's been a tsunami of theater news over the past…
New books from Chicago authors and publishers
A list of new and recently released books from Chicago authors or publishers, plus some books you might have missed…
A glimpse at how stand-ups coped during the pandemic and made their triumphant return to telling jokes again.
During the past year, comedians were forced, like …
A trash island forms the background for Oak Park Festival Theatre's outdoor staging of The Tempest.
Choosing The Tempest as their first show to break the enforce…
How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city's spoken word community
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Teatro ZinZanni,the dinner circus spectacle, reopens at the Cambria Hotel.
The show begins before you enter the theater lobby on the 14th floor of the Cambria Ho…
Cabinet of Curiosity sets sail with a new live show about mermaids, whales, sharks, seagulls"and climate disaster
It begins, as many wonderful things do, with th…
Ross Compton's Henchpeople is a shaggy and endearing comedy about supervillain support staff.
I went to a play a few days ago. In the Before Times, that would ha…
Artist Kelly Kristin Jones examines contested monuments and white supremacy with her art
A few years ago, in my former neighborhood in Queens, I passed an orname…
Marti Lyons takes over at Remy Bumppo, while Lorena Diaz and Wendy Mateo share the top job at Teatro Vista.
There's been a lot of changeover in top leadership at…
A new interdisciplinary work digs into the roots of one of the most mythologized of flowers.
In Japan, nobility and samurai cultivated orchids as symbols of brav…
Does the "Frida Kahlo: Timeless" exhibition and others like it go too far in their pursuit of bigger audiences?
"Make sure you can read the label!"…
A solo show by artist Hyun Jung Jun at Goldfinch Gallery in East Garfield Park.
The title of Hyun Jung Jun's exhibition reads like an incantation, as if upon ent…
In LEGACY: Phoenix^5, Joel Hall Dancers celebrate the past and look to the future.
In March 2020, the Joel Hall Dancers were preparing for a concert celebrating …
Eschaton host Tony Grayson rolls out the willkommen mat for a livestream variety show.
If the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalà and iconic LSD proponent …
In "Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones," Monica Brown traces ancestral legacies.
Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is …
Chicago Tap Theatre and JC Brooks team up for a new show with a 90s beat.
After nearly a year and a half of Zoom dance class and virtual performances, Chicago Ta…
$5 million helps BET regain lost ground from COVID, while Ken-Matt Martin reignites a VG tradition.
Back in 2012, just as Black Ensemble Theater was moving into…
