On the first truly summery evening of the year, the Grant Park Music Festival opened its 90th season in excellent fashion at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion on Wednesday. With […]

Khruangbin scratches an itch in my brain that not many other bands can really do for me. You don’t often come across bands like this remarkable trio of psychedelic geniuses […]

Chicago-based actor Keith Kupferer is your ultimate every-man performer. I’ve seen him in many stage roles over the years (The Humans, God of Carnage, Support Group for Men, Cake) but […]

Although filmmaker Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers is technically her feature filmmaking debut, she’s actually been working in the film industry since 19 (she’s about 24 or 25 presently), when […]

We are half way through the month and those tempts are rising! As always there is just SO MUCH to do this weekend from amazing concerts at our favorite venues, […]

The Trap Open Series is designed to bring non-traditional dramatic takes to Trap Door Theatre’s stage for short runs. The latest in the series is Antigonick, translated and adapted by […]

I have been waiting a long time for the opportunity to catch Allie X live again; especially with her latest immensely synth-heavy record Girl With No Face that I am […]

Change is nothing new to Riot Fest. Starting off as a multi-venue festival before calling Humboldt Park home for a few years, then migrating to Douglass Park, the festival is […]

With summer temperatures beckoning us, Chicago theatergoers may start thinking about an escape to the lush, green countryside of Spring Green, Wisconsin, home of American Players Theatre. For nearly half […]

Seventeen unrelated scenes. Six actors playing nameless characters. Joy and celebration, sadness and grieving, terror and violence. But no discernible plot. Attempts on Her Life, an experimental play by Tuta Theatre, […]

Main street movie theaters have defined small downtown areas since the 1920s, but independent theaters across the country have been shutting their doors at alarming rates. Thankfully, Wayfarer Theaters is […]

In the second wave of label signings as the music industry descended on Chicago in the mid-’90s, Fig Dish stood out as particularly resistant to playing the major label game. […]