We review two shows now running in Chicago’s storefront theater scene. Did you know that Chicago has more than 200 theater companies, many of them small and performing in storefronts […]
As one of the hardest working and effortlessly talented bands in Chicago, the three-piece Dehd are back with a brand new album Poetry just two short years after their last […]
As filmmakers and creatives look to their own for subject matter, there are ultimately two options to chronicle the lives and inner dialogues of notable authors, musicians, artists and others: […]
Sometimes, it comes down to a performance. In the case of the new Amy Winehouse docudrama Back To Black, from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray, Nowhere Boy), that […]
When you line up an army of famous friends to do character voices and even manage to get Ryan Reynolds to star as the impish ringleader of a group of […]
Some properties exist on a Wheel of Fortune spinner of adaptations. The Producers was a movie, then a musical, then a movie. Mean Girls lived the same life. Beetlejuice has […]
We have a weekend chock full of amazing concerts at our favorite venues, film festivals throughout the city, markets, art exhibitions, and so much more just waiting for you! Don’t […]
Certainly one of the most talked about films out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow (their follow-up to the indie hit We’re […]
You’re in your mid-twenties, not a true Millennial or a true Zoomer. All of your dates start on Hinge, and your dog’s anxiety medication costs twice as much as yours […]
Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre is a standout among a crowded landscape of local production companies. Focused on musical theater, their shows—usually presented at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts […]
There are few better ways to end your weekend than with a concert and even fewer as exhilarating as Sunday night’s show at Avondale Music Hall. Presented by Last Rites […]
Murder in the Cathedral is a solemn play, drawn from the works of master poet and Nobel-Prize laureate T.S. Eliot. The 1935 verse play is now on stage at City […]
