Based on the city’s north side and staged at Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Music Theater Works regularly produces a slate of relatively traditional American musicals. Last […]
The first national tour of the musical Parade arrived in Chicago this week with impressive credentials. Based on a true story set in Atlanta, it involves the 1913 rape and […]
Buddha’s Birthday by Lucid Theater is a little slip of a play, a story of family relationships and conflicts—husband/wife, mother/daughter, aunt/niece. One character in each of those pairs is played […]
There’s no better time for Chicagoans to point their cars north towards Wisconsin than right now. Some people might head to campgrounds, others may find a secret fishing spot, and […]
Told in the framework of a somewhat convincing faux true-crime documentary, writer-director Stuart Ortiz’s (Grave Encounters), Strange Harvest tells the story of a pair of detectives—Joe Kirby (Peter Zizzo) and […]
Written and directed by actor-turned-director Peter Cilella (marking his feature debut behind the camera), Descendent is one of those suspense films that deliberately blurs the line between the lead character’s […]
In 2022, for reasons that are still a mystery to some, writer/director Zach Cregger’s twisty, bizarre Barbarian became something of a hit among even non-horror enthusiasts, perhaps because it leaned […]
With violin extraordinaire Joshua Bell headlining, the Grant Park Orchestra gave an outstanding performance at Jay Pritzker Pavillion on Wednesday evening. Giancarlo Guerrero conducted a program of works by 19th […]
For the entirety of my life, growing up in Oak Park and visiting the Art Institute of Chicago first on school field trips and then as an adult whose favorite […]
One of the city’s most immersive film experiences is back in full force. The 70MM Film Festival at Chicago’s beloved Music Box Theatre runs August 8 through 21, offering two […]
In August of 2003, Lindsay Lohan was seventeen years old and at the nascent days of her teen stardom; she’d starred (twice, technically) in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent […]
We hope you’re recovering from Lollapalooza’s four days of music overload. I know we’re still reeling from the amazing Djo show! But it’s time for a new weekend full of […]
