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Black women deal with loss in new digital plays by Perceptions Theatre and Black Lives Black Words.
Starting a theater company any time is tough. Starting one ri…
The crafty, supernatural queen hosts the webseries Knitting's A Drag.
The queendom of drag is vast and diverse: There are comedy queens and look queens and insul…
The Neo-Futurists and Theatre in the Dark offer shows for the spookiest of election seasons.
After the uproar around Bill Burr's recent SNL monologue taking whit…
With his new book, the historian highlights underappreciated LGBTQ trailblazers.
Queer history lives in its multitudes. While specific individuals like San Franc…
The company celebrates "possibilities for renewal" in an anniversary concert.
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), founded in 1995, has been transitioning for ove…
A new biography examines Edith Rockefeller McCormick's stranger-than-fiction life.
It's common knowledge, though not commonly admitted, that biographers tend to …
Random Acts, Unwell, and PlayMakers Laboratory create scary stories to share (online) in the dark.
Exal Iraheta grew up listening to tales from Central American …
In a show of racial unity, Latinx artists across Chicago have spent the summer contributing their talents to the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
As we refl…
Thinking about The Boys in the Band, Broadway, and Chicago
Last weekend, I watched Ryan Murphy's Netflix production of The Boys in the Band, adapted from Mart Cr…
A trifecta of radio plays examines the present through the lens of the past.
Is life on Earth doomed? That's the question at the heart of H.G. Wells's science fi…
Rastus and Hattie and Run the Beast Down bring nightmarish scenarios to virtual life.
How do you write dramas about dystopia and alienation in the middle of a pa…
Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life.
Last week, we offered a (very partial) guide to some theater and dance events (as well …
The comedy powerhouse is on the market for only the second time in its 60-year history.
Yes, And . . . Second City is for sale!…
Wendy Woloson's book dives deep into America's obsession with cheap stuff.
Crap is a fun and easy word to say. But what crap is is a lot harder to pin down.…
An art party of women artists opens at Heaven Gallery.
Gwendolyn Zabicki began thinking up the exhibition "Fête Galante" while in Paris in 2016 after seeing A…
The Neo-Futurists create short digital plays about the often-overlooked women in the White House.
Time was when the future looked rather grim indeed for the late…
An overview of theater, dance, music, pop-up performances, and other artists and activists that you should know about"this season and year-round
The 2020 fall a…
The rapper-dancer-performance poet rolls with the pandemic punches.
2020 started off so well. January and February were great months for 27-year-old rapper, danc…
Going online opens more opportunities in this year's festival.
"I've been a dancer all my life," says CounterBalance founder Ginger Lane. Trained primarily in ba…
The new exhibit explores caring in all forms and the emotional toll the act can take.
The need for care has never been so vital"and so exhausting. While a long s…
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
I'd been thinking about Silk Road Rising, the mission-driven performing arts company fou…
Chicago high school seniors prepare for collegiate arts programs amid pandemic
For Vincenza Handzel, a senior at Jones College Prep, dancing isn't just a hobby"…
"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision
Chicago theater is in the midst of a historic transition, with …
Comedians rally to offer outdoor and indoor shows with a pandemic twist.
A few weeks ago, on one of the first chilly nights, I sat in the grass wearing a mask a…
Chicago-based dancer Paige Fraser advocates for those with scoliosis; plus Fly Honey brings the dance party online.
Paige Fraser started dancing when she was fou…
