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'Ain't nobody want to hear us,' say the stars of the joyous Single Black Female.
Part Sex and the City parody and all celebration of Black female culture, Single…
With his new self-published book, patron of public art Daniel X. O'Neil displays what he's bought from street artists and swiped from light posts.
"Basically: i…
Steven Dietz's historical drama starts strong but gets "tangled up in roads."
Unhelpfully prolific American playwright Steven Dietz never met a promising idea he…
Or maybe kids just have a higher tolerance for Roald Dahl's sadism.
Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin's musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel about a precocio…
Plus there's an excellent joke about thirst traps.
According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z"young people currently aged 14-22"are even more liberal and politi…
The Lyric's faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it's the women who are the stars.
Sometime in the 1940s, it o…
A Black college student's decision to join the Freedom Riders has unexpected consequences for his wife and friends.
Eminently engaging and candid, Too Heavy for …
The main character, a novelist, is a font of imagination.
A young adult novelist puzzles through fame, nostalgia, and the tedium of the everyday in Chicago playw…
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's devastated world is nightmarishly familiar.
It's comforting to regard the premise of Lucy Kirkwood's eco-thriller with a smug sense of…
Curators have recreated the defunct company's rehearsal space at the Chicago Cultural Center to explore 23 years of groundbreaking visual art and theater.
Chicag…
The films' diversity on-screen hasn't yet made its way behind the camera"or to the four-day convention.
Last month's 2019 Star Wars Celebration at McCormick Pla…
Chicago Is A Drag will include performers from across generations, neighborhoods, and performance styles.
To my fellow queer folks who live in the overlap of re…
The decades-old nonprofit credits Surviving R. Kelly with bringing Black girls into the cultural conversation about gender-based violence.
To sisters Salamishah…
The last installments of Prairie Pothole, Violet, Private Eye, and P.L. Dermes
We hope you've enjoyed the return of comics serials to the Reader.…
The Devil and Daniel Webster and Trial by Jury make up the musical doubleheader.
The two short, rarely-seen comedies on this engaging bill share a common plot po…
Walnut Spaceship Studio in the Bridgeport Art Center makes its debut.
Barrie Cole presents a series of overheard phone calls on the CTA that add up to a beautifu…
"The history of the United States," says the Northwestern prof, "is the history of empire."
Reading Daniel Immerwahr's latest book, How to Hide an Empire: A Hist…
They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.
The premise of Lauren Gunderson's two-hander is remarkably simple: a socially isolated, housebound high s…
Clean style, full heart, can't lose
"No matter if you're stunting, tumbling, jumping, or sitting on the sidelines, you always need to look clean, tight, and con…
The new play by Leonard House takes viewers inside a south side bar in 1972.
It's 1972 and Haskins' bar has been a fixture on the south side of Chicago for 30 ye…
In the process, we all learn, despite our initial impressions, that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Things it would be good to inherit from a famous pl…
"Unless your being innocent is as interesting to them as being guilty, you will not be believed."
Egyptian American playwright Yussef El Guindi is mostly known t…
Chicago Shakespeare's staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
Though the Bard wrote Hamlet sometime on the cusp …
It'll banish all your memories of English-class torture.
Whatever your history with Moby-Dick"even if you were a disgruntled teenager on a forced English class m…
The drumming is fun, but the corporate-speak is not.
Everything about Djembe! The Show starts to make more sense when you imagine it out of its current context"t…
