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After a tumultuous year, the theater's new artistic director is ready to listen as well as lead.
It's been a dramatic year for Victory Gardens Theater, even thou…
Best of Chicago 2020: Arts & Culture
Some business to get out of the way: the reader poll results were determined by you, the readers! If you're angry about …
A year after the shutdown, they're bringing it back.
It was Friday, the 13th of March, 2020, when Lyric Opera general director Anthony Freud had to cancel the c…
Best of Chicago 2020 is presented by Sponsored in part by…
The new artistic director wants to take 'amazing feats of storytelling' into more diverse realms; Rick Bayless wants to give more money to local theaters.
The st…
This interactive performance-piece-by-phone offers a daily dose of oddness.
The operatives at The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (now making their Chicago debut w…
The longtime Chicago playwright joins a new mini-renaissance of aural drama.
In Willy Russell's 1980 play Educating Rita, the title character (a working-class ha…
Cartoonist Johnny Sampson finally got his dream job at MAD magazine. Now he's one of the only artists keeping the legendary publication going.
Johnny Sampson do…
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.
"W…
The crown jewel of Chicago nightclubs lives on at the Newberry Library and in an upcoming documentary.
Back when nightclubs were smoke-filled rooms, where people…
This year's lineup offers a smorgasbord of online options; plus honoring Felicia P. Fields and remembering Edward S. Weil Jr. and Sally Banes
As the numbers of t…
Artist Brandon Breaux's Instagram project highlights his peers, mentors, collectors, friends, and more throughout Black History Month.
As the world shut down ear…
Yoshihisa Arai choreographs a world premiere for Maurice Ravel's hugely popular composition.
Winter in a pandemic. The roads obstructed with snow.…
Private equity firm ZMC acquires the comedy institution, while AICE advocates for representation.
This has been a helluva week for Second City news. On Wednesday…
The annual festival of storytelling offers the freshest catches for COVID days.
In the Before Times"before the Moth, before the Stoop, before the phrase "live li…
But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
It was hot on the August day in 2016 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel presented the…
But keeping their balance during COVID has been the toughest challenge many have faced.
On March 9 last year, Ayana Strutz, a professional dancer and actress fro…
Court Theatre unveils a digital experiment in microtheater.
Before the pandemic, seeing a play often meant sitting in the dark and fading away amongst the crowd …
A history of John Porcellino's midwest influence
The graphic novel Map of my Heart begins with a cartoon map of Hoffman Estates: the high school, the Barrington…
Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on aboli…
But the comedy games continue online; plus Raven announces a new-play development commission.
When venerable comedy institutions in Chicago get shout-outs, Comed…
From a call center in India to the socially distant confines of video chat, he's starred in television shows that have defined an era.
The cast of the NBC show …
Boudoir photographers get creative during COVID.
Boudoir photographer Samantha Eppel's shoot this past October was an intimate affair: just her client, her clie…
She's the first company alum to head the 43-year-old ensemble.
On February 4, after a yearlong search, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announced the appointment of …
Theatre Above the Law and A Red Orchid Theatre dive into the physics and magic of being alive together.
For the past year, I've been making the same (extremely b…
