In March 2020, when I wrote about underground industrial label Chicago Research and the tight-knit community that surrounded it, I heard that local duo Conjunto Primitivo planned to release …
Writer Debbie-Marie Brown hired for this position, made possible in part by grant funding from the Field Foundation. The post Chicago Reader hires social justice reporter appeared first on C…
Beth Leavel and Taylor Iman Jones lead the new musical based on the film, with a score by John and Shaina Taub and a book by Kate Wetherhead.
Most rappers can only dream of making a song as powerful as PGF Nuk's breakout single, "Waddup." Superficially it sounds like a pretty standard drill track"terse verses in a wrought-iron flo…
Even Miranda Priestly would be impressed by this. Music icon Elton John attended a performance of The Devil Wears Prada on August 3 at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre. The Broadway-bo…
Screen star and human rights advocate Angelica Ross will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, becoming the first openly trans woman to play a leading role in a Broadway show.…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome actress and human rights advocate Angelica Ross ("Pose," "American Horror Story") ma…
On August 3rd, Elton John attended a performance of The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical at Broadway in Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre. Check out the photos here!
Ross had her breakout role in the Ryan Murphy series Pose.
The openly Trans actor will join the Tony-winning revival in September.
The producers of "Chicago" have announced that actress and human rights advocate Angelica Ross will make her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart. She will play an eight-week run beginni…
The names aren't included here and don't matter a jot for the point I am making. Chicago theater needs to be a community again.
On the evening of Thursday, June 30, dozens of young Black dancers gathered on the Chicago Riverwalk across from the Merchandise Mart. At 9 PM that night, Art on the Mart, which bills itself…
CDC celebrates two decades of making high-energy performances that blend hip hop, contemporary dance and storytelling. "Booms Day" follows the adventures of a young girl and her boombox thro…
Singer and guitarist Fernando de Buen López moved to Chicago from Mexico City in 2012 with his band El Mañana, who released one more album of jangly, psychedelic indie rock in 2014 bef…
Chicago guitarist and vocalist Melody Angel combines fiery celebrations of life with equally fearless and uncompromising demands for social justice. Her style of blues-rock mixes genres and …
Ryoko Yonekura will return to the Broadway company of "Chicago" for 16 performances. Yonekura will assume the role of Roxie Hart from November 7-20, 2022. She will lead the Broadway producti…
The name on everybody's lips is gonna be"Ryoko Yonekura! The original star of the Japanese-language production of Chicago will return to the Broadway revival as Roxie Hart on November 7. She…
The Tony-winning revival will also soon celebrate 26 years on Broadway.
Japanese superstar Ryoko Yonekura will return to the Broadway production by popular demand in the role of "Roxie Hart" for 16 performances only, Nov 7 to Nov 20, 2022, at the Ambassador Thea…
There's too much talent at the Mercury Theater to make everyone sing to a canned backing track in "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
The long-running production continues at the Ambassador Theatre.
The long-running, Tony-winning revival continues at the Ambassador Theatre.
In late June, the Chicago Pride Parade returned to its in-person glory after two years of delay and cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of people headed for the north side …
Emerging Chicago rapper Christopher Horace charmed me a couple years ago with the first EP he released as F.A.B.L.E., (IX) The Hermit. His downy voice makes his playful raps sound more intim…