I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen […]

This is it folks, all your hard work has hopefully paid off and the year is finally done. So let’s celebrate with the final curated weekend of the year! Spend […]

We asked our editors and writers to pick some of their favorites of the year. The result is this mosaic of arts and culture, which most likely does not include […]

  [soliloquy id=”22025″]   Welcome to the first day back from the holidays! We hope you had a lovely time celebrating with friends and family. If you’ve still got some […]

A play at Trap Door Theatre always starts before it really starts. The open stage in the tiny theater is set and populated with characters from the play, in some […]

Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience is a non-stop, 70-minute two-hander taking the piss out of Muggle culture by stream-rolling through all seven of J.K. Rowling’s books. The high-energy, cheap […]

  [soliloquy id=”21907″]   Wonderland Express is something of an institution at the Chicago Botanic Garden. For years, it’s been delighting families with its classic model trains, unique local botanical […]

In many ways, it’s a shame that a certain percentage of the audience going to see All the Money in the World will do so out of some sort of […]

This sweeping, swirling look at the life of an Olympic skiing hopeful turned facilitator of one of the most exclusive poker games in the world also marks the directing debut […]

In what has become a holiday ritual, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center gave a spirited if imperfect performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos at Harris Theater […]

Have you ever watched a movie in which there’s a funeral scene near the end, and the only people in the front row of mourners are the cast members of […]

There are few filmmakers working today who have a more consistent track record at making interesting, thought-provoking treatises on the human condition than Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska). […]