When Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator came across my desk at CultureCombine, I wondered: how the hell do you simulate that? Developer To-Go Games took the premise of being a park […]
In 1998, the short and sweet musical The Drowsy Chaperone was created in Toronto as a bachelor party gift for creators Bob Martin and Janet Van de Graaff. The first […]
With a fascinating program celebrating the change of seasons and the Americana of Sun Valley, Idaho, violinist Benjamin Beilman, festival Music Director Alasdair Neale, and festival musicians entertained large audiences […]
Bach in the City performed the Passion of St. Mark at St. Vincent DePaul Church in Lincoln Park on Friday. The chorus and an orchestra of authentic Baroque-period instruments performed […]
This year, March 17 was not only Chicago’s annual St. Patty’s Day celebration, but also an observation of St. Pattie Gonia’s Day at Pilsen’s Thalia Hall. The Nebraska-born, Oregon-residing environmental […]
Based on the true story of a year in the life of Amanda Ogle (played ferociously by recent Oscar-nominee Rose Byrne), Tow tells the story of the Seattle woman living […]
Picking things up mere seconds after Ready or Not, returning writer/directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (once collectively known as Radio Silence) waste no time getting right back into the […]
Based on the wildly popular 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) and adapted by master genre storyteller Drew Godard (also The Martian, as well as The Cabin in the […]
This March has been a special month for the city of Chicago, and it’s not just because the river’s dyed green. Eat for Impact is creating change one plate at […]
With the opening of Robert Weinberg’s poem—“On North Broadway/Middle aged women roll their pushcarts into Rexalls”—you know you’re not in Kansas any more. Instead, you’re back nearly 40 years to a […]
The Seldoms are a Chicago dance company, known for dance as an intersection of movement, intellect, and social consciousness. The Seldoms’ performance, titled Floe, is a graceful yet urgent plea for action […]
Hey, would you look at that—it’s the first weekend of spring. It may not feel like it but I assure you the astronomical spring starts this Friday March 20 and […]
