Marissa Murrell Myers's 2025 chiller about dead friends and a mysterious cabin in the woods makes its local debut Bramble Theatre Company.

Whether in or outside law enforcement, the spread of automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology raises alarms around privacy, data security, and public safety. It also begs the question of how transparent and ethical vendors are in marketing and advertising their products.  Would ALPRs be as widely accepted--and even normalized--if the public understood the full [...]

Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's "cry of existentialist despair" makes its local debut at Theatre Y in a spare but evocative staging.

Dexter Bullard's staging of Stuart Dybek's short story fills the Chopin Theatre with music and memories of a vanished Chicago.

Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.

Chicago's take on the British panel show. Hilarious. Puzzling.

Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.

Wishy's brand-new second album, Nature's Pill (Winspear), is a dozen tracks of purely pleasurable pop rock.

Dozzy's Ibekwe and Dozzy's Grill return to Monday Night Foodball with a tuberous menu in celebration of Iri Ji, the Igbo New Yam Festival.

Explore the work of the queercore trailblazer with the ten-film series The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce.

Singer Maria Manow and producer Ike Clateman traffic in extremes.

The breadth of Wadada Leo Smith's activity is immense.

This fall, Chicago's architecture takes center stage as Open House Chicago® returns

The author and the star of A Streetcar Named Desire connect over one tumultuous evening in Gregg Ostrin's play, now at Lookingglass Theatre.

The gruesome deaths of children provides fodder for performances rooted in burlesque, vaudeville, music, and dance.

Play On!, through 10/18 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

The classic comedy (adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher) makes a fine first production for Northlight's Evanston homecoming.

The writer and performer's childhood in Western Springs and later adventures in theater resonate in this intimate and warm solo show.

Erik Gernand's world premiere offers a provocative premise that doesn't quite pay off, despite committed performances.

Austin's Glass Half Full Theatre's show combined puppets, mythic creatures, folklore, and the too-real threat of immigration agents.

A Black mother and white father face their fears and recriminations in a police station waiting room while searching for their missing son.

Brydie O’Connor’s care-filled documentary celebrates lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

A Chicago collective of death doulas wants to make dying and grieving something we do together again.

Two-day twee and indie-pop festival the Windy Pop Weekender includes 90s favorites Rocketship, Dressy Bessy, and the Softies.

Based on the same Ferenc Molnár play that inspired Carousel, John Neumeier's 2011 ballet offers nothing in the way of redemption.

The actor and singer discusses Cubs fandom, The Chi's legacy, and what's next.

Bitknot shows off Feeble Little Horse's grasp of trip-hop, new age minimalism, and atmospheric video-game scoring.

Marian Runk's musical approach has an unassuming breadth.

This concert celebrates the album's October 23 release on Thrill Jockey.

Zines have been with us for almost a century now!

Walter Thompson-Hernández's story of a father and son reconnecting is “motion picture poetry.”

September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four documentary short films by Palestine filmmakers, along with food, live music, and special prize drawings. Chicago filmmaker Tom Callahan and Palestinian American activist and organizer Alexis Judeh devised the ticketed event [...]

Rocket From the Crypt emerged in the early 90s with a fiery, maximalist, horn-infused sound and a stage presence that took inspiration from 50s rock 'n' roll, 60s soul and garage, and decades of punk rock.

French Police might be the fastest-growing Chicago band with such an underreported story.

Advocates gathered on September 17 in support of reinstating parole in Illinois, which has been abolished since 1978.

Melanie Hernandez, ak the Coffee Fairy, and Cecil Rodriguez, aka FatCap, unite over trashy beach snacks at the next Monday Night Foodball.

Kokandy Productions brings their hit seasonal musical from last fall back with fanfare at Broadway Playhouse.

Zayd Dohrn's dramedy about a campus free-speech debate doesn't contain enough new insights to justify the narrative digressions.

Comparing the early and upcoming renditions of the Chicago Underground Film Festival with artistic director, programmer, and cofounder Bryan Wendorf

James Sie's adaptation doesn't resolve all the issues in Madeleine L'Engle's dense text, but Lifeline's production offers a lot to enjoy.

Tim Kinsella was friends with Danny B when Danny lived in Chicago, but this book is a novel, not a biography.

Seismic Waves recorded only demos, and just a few songs ever got released. But these rowdy pranksters' anything-goes spirit lives on in the DIY underground.

"Each impression records not only the flower itself but a fleeting moment in time."

Keep some dreams just for yourself.