Mercury Theater’s Sherlock Holmes Tries to Make Its Pleasantries Elementary
“Do you really believe in 100 years, people will be talking about Sherlock?” Says Michael Aaron Lindner as Sir Arthur…
“Do you really believe in 100 years, people will be talking about Sherlock?” Says Michael Aaron Lindner as Sir Arthur…
On a cold Tuesday night, 30 to 40 people crowd the back of Women and Children First in Andersonville. As people…
Shakespeare in Russian rocks, especially when you start the evening with a shot (OK, shots) of vodka in a “Shakespeare…
Hey, everyone. Due to my recently concluded time at the Sundance Film Festival and an upcoming trip to London, I’m…
Oracle Productions’ new play, The Hairy Ape, was one of Eugene O’Neill’s early works, written in 1922. It’s written in…
The Music Box Theatre has hosted a number of different special screenings, Midnight movies and movie marathons during its illustrious…
I’d like to start this off with a glimpse of perhaps the stupidest idea Uber has ever concocted. You may…
Hedwig Dances kicked off the new year with a move to the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Headed by founder…
The opening scene of Colours’ new video for “Monster,” the single from their debut album Ivory, introduces Victory Records’ hardcore…
Two words and 25 artists structure the upcoming exhibit, Present Standard, co-curated by Edra Soto and Josué Pellot at the Chicago Cultural…
In 2015, Chicago artist Deborah Boardman died (1958 – 2015) after uplifting, inspiring and encouraging artists from a vast variety of media…
The world premiere of Another Word for Beauty at the Goodman Theatre was packed. Written by playwright Jose Rivera, the…
Humboldt Park native Phillip B. Williams returns to Chicago this week for two readings in promotion of Thief in the…
A Red Orchid Theatre has mounted a joyous, goofy production of a Tennessee Williams eccentric rarity, The Mutilated. Oh,…
I’m Brianna Kratz, a Chicago poet and reader. For 2016 I am reading only women authors for my Read Only…
Hurry! Restaurant week ends on February 4th. After an intense evaluation of all of the restaurant week menus and a marathon…
January 25th is the birthday of Scottish bard, Robert Burns. You know him for writing poems like “Auld Lang Syne”…
826CHI, the nonprofit creative writing and tutoring center for children, is hosting a charity scrabble tournament in late February. The…
Available now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in hardcover for $20.oo. Throughout the 20th century, African-Americans faced extraordinary difficulties as they tried…
The bluesy, politically charged music of Nina Simone is the aural background for Sunset Baby, Timeline Theatre’s Chicago premiere of…