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Lifeline's staging of Charles Johnson's novel has sea legs.
Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty,…
Erika L. Sánchez's novel gets a stellar stage life in Isaac Gómez's adaptation.
There is a moment in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter where Amá (C…
Interrobang revives Daniel MacIvor's mind-bending solo about the art of lying.
Interrobang Theatre Project presents a revival of Daniel MacIvor's daringly strang…
TUTA gives Ibsen's classic a contemporary musical update.
Lauren Demerath rages, leers, screams, flirts, and, best of all, sings her way through an unforgettable…
Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 satirical one-act holds more historic than contemporary interest.
Day of Absence is a show with one joke and two audiences. The joke i…
Nearly five decades after her career began, the pioneer performance artist, musician, and activist is now a permanent fixture at the Art Institute.
The goddess o…
The musician, poet, and LTAB alum takes the stage during halftime.
Louder Than a Bomb and Young Chicago Authors alum Jamila Woods returns to the LTAB Festival to…
Syrian Community Network's afterschool art program helps refugee children stay connected to home.
Jasmine isn't the official flower of Syria, but many Syrians h…
The comedian on his style, inspiration, and the Chicago comedy scene.
In between acts at his comedy variety show, Caleb Says Things with Friends, Caleb Hearon ta…
An afternoon with Poems While You Wait
It's balmy in the Children's Garden of the Garfield Park Conservatory, a welcome respite from the blustery chill of winter…
Arts and culture happenings from Fri 2/28 to Sun 3/1.
It's Leap Day weekend, spend your extra day wisely.…
Ten performance picks to blow you away this month
Theater (Kerry Reid)
What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck's Tony-nominated play, in which the playwr…
Authentic dialogue grounds First Floor Theater's dark comedy.
As one of three sisters, I feel uniquely qualified to review the chaotic choreography of dialogue t…
An exhibition in two parts"Part II: The Smart Museum of Art
There are certain very specific types of art I cling to, like Eva Hesse's fiberglass and latex work a…
Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.
Preservation Chicago announced the 2020 edition of its annual list of the city's "7 Most Endangered Buildings" today…
The 1987 Michael J. Fox film gets a toothless musical treatment.
This musical version of the 1987 Michael J. Fox vehicle, receiving its world premiere at the Par…
The cast in Redtwist's drama about a police shooting makes the heavy lifting look easy.
Ruby (Brooke Reams) and Wilson (Kevin Tre'Von Patterson) seem to have a p…
A woman chemist helps wives dispatch their plutocratic husbands.
In 2013, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum wrote an article for Wired magazine titl…
The tragedy of a single elephant's death has universal implications in Griffin's production.
This Lynn Nottage drama is pure kinetic energy, exploring the illici…
Leslye Headland's drama reignites the dead nerve endings of romance.
"I would let [insert name here] ruin my life" is a phrase that anyone who's radiated their e…
A Cleveland bar faces gentrification in Factory's latest.
I guess a bad play could be written about the hostile overthrow of a Cleveland Heights karaoke bar at t…
Actors Gymnasium combines circus arts and a poignant story of aging in their annual winter show.
Actors Gymnasium primarily functions as a training school in the…
Two gay men and their pooches try to build a life together in this tepid play.
Normally, in a fantasy life, you obsess over your pets. Dog cloning figures largel…
The bestselling novel about a young Latinx woman's struggle to find her identity is now a play.
In 2017, young Latinx people entered the mind of Julia Reyes, the…
Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA's largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
Museums can often feel like a co…
