The writer, artist, philanthropist, and activist leaves a lasting legacy in Chicago's theater and LGBTQ+ communities.

The changes amount to small but significant rollbacks in the office’s openness under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.

At Comfort Station, Mauricio López F. presented “Wind Reenactment,” a solo show that utterly, magnificently fails to do what ...

Illinois basically has two regions: Chicago and “downstate.” Dense Chicago is reliably Democratic, whereas downstate skews ...

Dennis Kelly's solo play Girls & Boys traces the effects of misogyny within one family through the eyes of the mother.

Kelvin Roston Jr.'s Twisted Melodies, a tribute to the late Donny Hathaway, returns to Northlight Theatre in a stirring ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as ...

Rabbitology is the nom de plume of Nat Timmerman, a University of Michigan student who has spent the past two years ...

Ju-Blick has long been recognized in the scene for his powerful flows, but he only finally stepped into music full-time in ...

The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if it’s ...

The trio Black Rave Culture are all long-established figures in Washington, D.C.'s underground scene, and their tastes in ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...