Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 10/24 and Beyond
It’s the final weekend before Halloween! That means all the fantastic and frightening events are crammed in the next few days. So enjoy the costume-filled fun at all the markets, […]
Review: Trees of Wind, Fire and Light—Pine by Laura Mason
Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest—the exact location is a highly guarded secret—is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be 4,500 years old. It […]
Review: In Remy Bumppo’s Dear Elizabeth, Two Poets Reflect on Their Lives and Work in Their Letters
A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]
Review: Ruth on the Rocks Plays a Mixtape Down Memory Lane as Part of Destinos International Latino Theater Festival
This year marks the 7th Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, which brings a variety of performances from as far as Spain and Argentina to the Back of the Yards neighborhood […]
Interview: Mike Bancroft on Crafting the Midwest Amari at Fractional Spirits
Move over Malort, Chicago has a new bitter buddy in town. Fractional Spirits, co-founded by Mike Bancroft of Co-op Sauce and Drew Fox of 18th Street Distillery have a new […]
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Babes with Blades Is a Fun and Feisty Take on Fairyland
Each iteration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a different version of the confounding and enchanted woods in which the characters lose themselves. Audience members walk in, wondering how this […]
Review: Artistic Home’s Meet Vera Stark Satirizes Early Hollywood and Its Treatment of Black Actors
Playwright Lynn Nottage is known for revealing truths about the lives of the Black diaspora. Her stories are like ripping the bandage off a wound so that it can shock, […]
Review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield Shine in Emotional, Relatable—If Overstuffed—We Live in Time
Sometimes life is funny. One day you’re sitting in your kitchen in Indianapolis, a few years out of college and wondering how you’re ever going to build a career in […]
Review: Joffrey Ballet Stages a Literary Masterpiece with Marston’s Atonement, Adapted from Ian McEwan’s Novel
I’ve often said that a film retelling will destroy a brilliant literary work and a mediocre book can make a great film. My example [of the latter] is Mario Puzo’s […]
Dispatch: Spend the Weekend at Chicago International Film Festival, with Films on Politics, History and Family
Chicago International Film Festival continues through October 27, with films and events taking place around Chicago. Follow our Chicago International Film Festival tag for all our latest posts on recommendations […]
Last Minute Plans: Catch Pony at Subterranean on Friday Before They Get Huge
If you play a single Pony song, ANY song, you will immediately see why I am so head over heels with the band. I came across the band during the […]
Review: Theater Above the Law’s Grimm Exhausts You With Style
Who would’ve thought two 19th-century German nerds could cause such a stir? When Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled their nation’s folklore in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales they sparked two centuries […]