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Matthew Rachman Gallery documents the architectural creations of Chicago's ultimate outsider artist.
Last summer, Intuit began exhibiting nearly a dozen Wesley W…
Cheryl Strayed's advice column becomes a story circle in Nia Vardalos's adaptation.
Before Wild vaulted her to fame and fortune, Cheryl Strayed offered literally…
This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.
Architecture bienni…
"I suffered too much to live here."
J.L. Gross moved into the Lathrop Homes, a 925-unit Depression-era public housing complex on the north side, in 1988, two de…
His first solo U.S. museum show explores optimism as characterized by the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
"Little one, I have dreams to sell," begins one of a parcel …
Jessica Swale's set-in-1896 drama feels depressingly contemporary in Promethean's production.
Jessica Swale's 1896-set drama should come with a trigger warning. …
With a mast composed of paintings created by children all over the world, this ship is a vessel aimed toward a more peaceful future.
During a recent orientation …
Thirty years later, Lauren Yee's play depicts the events during the failed Chinese uprising with sympathy and surprising humor.
In June, the Washington Post publ…
A civic center in River North, a concrete ribbon that split Hyde Park north from Woodlawn, and a third World's Fair on the lakefront
Before I came to Chicago, I…
Now in its third year, the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival celebrates artists at home and abroad.
If there's ever an opportunity to see the full ra…
In Rick Cleveland's play, the five men who followed Richard Nixon as POTUS open up about the job at his memorial.
American Blues Theater's Chicago premiere of en…
Lucas Hnath's one-woman play about his mother's kidnapping centers the voice of the survivor.
In the playwright's notes to Hillary and Clinton, which premiered a…
The Museum of Contemporary Art and Prop Thtr offer directors a chance to adapt between venues.
Tara Aisha Willis and Olivia Lilley both moved into prominent posi…
The company's shoe manager tells us what it takes to keep the company on its toes.
After two decades of performances at the Auditorium Theatre, the Joffrey Balle…
The actor, comedian, author, and carpenter returns to Chicago with his latest one-man show.
Nick Offerman is quite the combo platter. Whether he's acting in tele…
For 41 years, the Chicago Theatre Softball League has meant summertime camaraderie for the city's troupes.
Again, as it has been for 41 summers, it's "once more …
White Sox fans love their team almost as much as they love their dogs. Photographer Adam Jason Cohen swung by Guaranteed Rate Field on Dog Day to capture baseball's fuzziest fans. He…
Raised in Chicago, the Japanese American dancer pushed against World War II-era cultural prejudices.
Published in 1947, Chicago Japanese-American Year Book take…
Music director Andrew Davis will be succeeded by Enrique Mazzola, in two years
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that music director Andrew Davis will end …
Zeitgeist happens: we didn't exactly plan it this way, but nearly all the profiles and features in this special Fall Theater and Dance Issue reflect on boundaries, identity, and marginalizat…
Hubbard Street dancer Connie Shiau
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Gregory Jaco's Tornado School of Martial Arts comes alive in a new dance performance developed through the Rebuild Foundation.
"To this school . . . we bring our…
The playwright's second play in a trilogy comes from a place of personal experience and pain.
Hannah Ii-Epstein hunches over when she talks, her voice soft and v…
As Write Club turns ten, founder Ian Belknap looks at the current state of the art in Chicago.
I coined the term "live lit" over lunch with Keith Ecker in 2011. …
With two major shows opening this fall, the designer's career is booming"but he's focused on making audiences connect emotionally with the world of the play.
Bac…
