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PFP's story contains lessons about board oversight and artist empowerment.
There are no shows to speak of happening on Chicago stages, but the offstage drama ha…
The Hyde Park Art Center is bringing back the spaces we've all missed.
In a recent survey published in the Singapore-based paper the Straits Times, "artist" was …
Black Archivist aims to get cameras into the hands of Black people to better document their communities.
One day, when Uptown resident and freelance photographe…
What it's like to explore a familiar place under unfamiliar circumstances.
When it was announced the Art Institute of Chicago was reopening I swore I wouldn't go…
A partnership with Little Red Schoolhouse brings art and nature together; plus a new home for Joel Hall Dancers and Collaboraction's virtual season
Frank Maugeri…
Jenn Freeman (aka Po'Chop) probes femininity, gender, rage, and history in a five-part dance film.
Small-town girl finds adventure, fame, and love in the big cit…
The 88-year-old musical theater icon talks about staying home"and coming out.
Back in early March, Broadway icon Joel Grey, 88, was finalizing his plans to visit…
Remembering the comedy theater's humble beginnings and reflecting on its dramatic end
How did you find out about iO closing?…
Trap Door reimagines its aesthetic for film; Otherworld films a onetime live performance (sans audience).
As sacrifices go, staying home when possible and wearin…
The historical novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey gives the misunderstood creatures their due.
Before pigeons were condemned by modern sensibilities as "rats wi…
The Chicago comedy group's new web series is filled with Zoom meeting disasters and personal massager triumphs.
Zoom work meetings are now a way of life. Those w…
The country's first and only African American children's museum may not have planned for the pandemic, but it was ready.
This year brought a resurgence of puttin…
But the company remains true to its focus on new work and egalitarian principles.
Prop Thtr will probably never produce Stephen Sondheim's Follies. Yet somehow, …
A show reopens and closes under fire; plus new leadership and a new funding initiative for Black theater makers
Last weekend, Judy and Liza"Once in a Lifetime: T…
The Black-owned bookstore thrives as a community-oriented business.
One day in April 2019, DL Mullen was wandering around Halsted and Grand.…
Two teens created the project to highlight Black joy, trauma, and impactful change rooted in the Black Lives Matter movement.
With the Black Lives Matter movemen…
In an industry decimated by distancing, dancers discover steps forward.
When theaters closed their doors for COVID-19 in March, it looked like curtains for perf…
Zoom past the COVID doldrums with these August workshops.
Shadow and light. Wood and paper.…
Chicago has been frequently touted as a writer's town; a place where writers can work on their craft and thrive.…
The thunder gets louder on the stand-up's new special, Trampoline in a Ditch.
It's not restaurants, music, or even comedy that Kyle Kinane misses most: it's the…
A very incomplete guide on what to read (or listen to) now from Chicago's theater scene.
So you can't go to the theater because (gestures weakly toward everythin…
In Sahar Mustafah's debut novel, The Beauty of Your Face, a terrorist attack opens a window on the story of a Palestinian American family in Chicago.
Sahar Musta…
These museums and galleries are reopening.
I've been enjoying the virtual aspects of my art-viewing experience the past few months. People got a little experimen…
The company offers an online 'retrospectacular' of four previous shows.
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a b…
How one couple channeled their love for books and each other into running a business
Heidi Zheng never had plans to run a bookstore.…
