Artistic Home's revival of Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark delivers laughs and uncomfortable truths about race and ...

Take the mass surveillance and sinister double-speak of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the toxic workplace of Apple TV+’s Severance, and the saccharine authoritarianism of Imelda Staunton’s ...

Using a mode of sensuous viewing, considering an erotics of art provided a space for listening, viewing, and framing untapped ...

For the first time, Seoul-born artist Haegue Yang displays 58 flat works, on view at the Arts Club of Chicago.

The more government, the more injustice.” At Mazdaznan’s peak around 1908, he attracted some 18,000 followers worldwide, ...

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College ...

Chicago organizers have long joined together across racial, ethnic, and geographic lines in the fight for a better city.

Vershawn Sanders-Ward talks about what she looks for in collaborators with her company; plus changes at Lookingglass and Lifeline.

The most famous occult Chicago film is almost certainly Candyman (1992), largely set in Cabrini-Green and featuring many more ...

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at ...

Subtext Studio Theatre's Que Te Vaya Bien, about a father and son confronting their issues at Wrigley Field, delivers a ...

Structured as a series of obituaries, Eden Robins’s literary puzzle box uses an AI character's story to examine the very ...