Adapting a Margaret Atwood novel to a two-hour play is a noble and massive undertaking. Perhaps that’s why Netflix chose to create a miniseries of the book due to come […]

Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge is performed on the most minimal of stages with few costume changes (and no shoes), thus proving that it’s really the script and […]

Shattered Globe Theatre presents the first in its all-Chicago premiere season, Pulitzer-nominee James Still’s The Heavens are Hung in Black, at Theater Wit through October 21, and directed by Louis […]

CENSORED! We Read Banned Books, an ACLU benefit, will be an evening of readings by Chicago authors from their favorite banned books, sponsored by Third Coast Review and Kill Your Darlings Live […]

There’s a particularly strange mood that accompanies the transition from summer to autumn. Life becomes paradoxically darker and heavier yet beautiful. Crisp nights come earlier and earlier along with an […]

Rabbids have invaded – no – infested the Mushroom Kingdom. Despite looking like harmless bunnies, Rabbids are annoying sociopathic gremlin-like creatures hell-bent on sowing chaos in everything they encounter. The […]

Last year’s Ear Taxi Festival put Chicago’s vibrant contemporary art music scene on display, demonstrating a deep and talented community of local composers and performers. One of the brightest lights […]

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy by developer Naughty Dog was originally announced as a sort of story DLC for last year’s amazing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. While a bit shorter […]

Last week, thousands of punk fans gathered at Northerly Island to see two of the greatest bands to ever grace the genre: Rancid and Dropkick Murphys. Both bands have been […]

The play opens with a symphony of switchboard operators, those 1920s-era office workers who kept people talking by plugging phones into jacks, greeting and connecting the world outside with the […]

[soliloquy id=”16498″]   There’s a festival for everything in Chicago, and August boasts some of summer’s biggest. This past weekend alone you could have attended Chicago Hot Dog Fest, the […]

First, it was quiet. Like a street in the early hours before a parade. A feeling of ceremony hung in the air, underscored by the seats still being set up […]