Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/21 and Beyond
It’s Memorial Day weekend and the events are flowing! So many festivals, market, concerts, and just pure fun are waiting to fill up you holiday weekend! There’s no reason not […]
Dialogs: Humanities Fest Hosts History with Frida Kahlo’s Family and Mary Beard
In front of a rapt audience, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s great nieces appeared at the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Northwestern Day on Sunday, to talk about their new book Casa Kahlo: […]
Dialogs: The Unique Genius of John Waters Livens Up a Sunday
The Pope of Trash. The Sultan of Sleaze. The Baron of Bad Taste. These are just some of the sobriquets people have bestowed on filmmaker John Waters, and he proudly […]
TCR Mixtape No. 48: Warm Love Cool Dreams 2026 Day One
It may be a little chilling up to this weekend up but fret not! The weekend looks like it’ll be perfectly pleasant for an amazing festival as Warm Love Cool […]
Review: First Floor Theater’s Work Hard Have Fun Make History Gets Lost in Its Own Experimentalism
Review written by Emily Werner. First Floor Theater’s new production of reid tang’s dark comedy Work Hard Have Fun Make History struggles to create a clear connection between the characters […]
Review: Hell in a Handbag’s The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid Parodies a Scam From Rose’s Home Town of St. Olaf, Minnesota
By now, the four women of The Golden Girls have become woven into the fabric of American culture. Dorothy (David Cerda), Blanche (Grant Drager), Sophia (Kelly Bolton), and Rose (Ed […]
Review: In A Red Orchid’s The Targeted, People Believe Mind-Control Chips Are Implanted in Their Bodies
The setting is a church summer camp, now the site of the First Annual Solidarity and Truth Conference. Before the play begins, voices and visual projections describe the lives of T.I.s […]
Review: Evgeny Kissin Brings His Extraordinary Playing Back to Symphony Center
For the third time in a month, pianist extraordinaire Evgeny Kissin graced the stage at Symphony Center with his powerful and dramatic technique on Sunday. The first two times he […]
Review: Distance and Discovery Frame the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians Finale
For their final program of the 2025–26 season, the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians—drawn from the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—offered a thoughtful look at how geographic displacement can […]
Dialogs: Jad Abumrad and Lynda Barry on Creative Energy From Mind to Image at Humanities Festival Event
I took a sentimental journey back to the ’80s recently when.Lynda Barry was featured at the Chicago Humanities Festival in a conversation with journalist and Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad. Barry is an […]
Review: Le Bal at Trap Door Theatre Portrays an American Century with Music, Dance and No Dialogue
Not a word is spoken. The 90-minute performance by Trap Door Theatre is staged with music, recorded song and occasional dialog, but the seven actors say nothing. The production is […]
Review: Timeline Opens Its New Home With a Sizzling Staging of An Enemy of the People
Opening night for the first play in Timeline Theatre’s new building was a sparkly affair. The audience was full of theater people and the level of drama was amped up […]