The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

The onetime Chicago experimental playwright's 2006 play, The End of Reality, finds a fitting home with Theatre Y.

Many people know Carmack as half of underground queer pop promoters Citypill. In 2019, Carmack met Stevie Logan, and in 2021, ...

In Second City's latest mainstage revue, This Too Shall Slap, the politics stay offstage, but the angst is evident.

Shay Youngblood's autobiographical story of a Black girl raised by her elders in the south returns to Pegasus Theatre Chicago ...

Third is a SouthSide born rapper and teacher with a deep affinity for words. As a lyricist and storyteller, Third is always ...

Situated at 79th and Clyde, Chicago Body Shop neighbors a few tire shops, but its mission is not to tune up your car, but a biological vehicle: your body.

Gender Play, or What You Will at Steppenwolf is s a defiant and exuberant celebration of queerness and the Shakespearean canon.

The Conspirators mesh Shakespearean tragedy with local politics, and their anarchic clown style in Chicago Cop Macbeth.

Golden Street cofounder Son Amoz wants his organization to build a spiritually rooted ecosystem for musicians, muralists, and more.

Black Southern Women Who Love Women gets a stirring adaptation with Fleetwood-Jourdain.

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