Sunday, September 7, was a memorable evening. The Corn Moon waxed full, hung in the clear over the lake. The temperature was cool with a nip of autumn to come. […]

Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]

“Whenever I walk down a street, I find myself fascinated by the glow of windows and the curtains drawn across them, knowing that behind each one lives a world of […]

Ryan Castelaz isn’t one to do things along a projected plan or path. All about playfulness, passion, and creating story, Discourse Coffee’s CEO gave me, and the patrons coming up […]

In Jane Russell’s first movie role in 1943, her bra was the star, even though it barely seemed to be there. The publicity posters for The Outlaw, directed by Howard […]

When Bodie Kuljian took the stage during blind auditions for NBC’s The Voice in 2022, it took just 20 seconds for Blake Shelton to press his button to indicate his […]

The American Chamber Music Society introduced its second season with a radiant concert at PianoForte Studio in the South Loop on Saturday night. Headed by Chicago-based violinist Eric Gratz, ACMS […]

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu’s (Minding the Gap) latest film, Preparation for the Next Life, is about Uyghur migrant Aishe (newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar) living in New York City and […]

This is the second in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist […]

From director Ethan Silverman comes this documentary, which is actually a two-in-one package. The first part is a respectable trip through the life and music of T. Rex front man […]

I’ll admit, from the first scene in director and TV series helmer Rachael Abigail Holder’s first feature, Love, Brooklyn, I was prepared to fully dislike this movie. In it, we […]

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bing Liu (the documentary Minding the Gap) has turned his attention toward narrative filmmaking with the heartbreaking love story Preparation for the Next Life, concerning a pair of […]