With its roots in Chicago theater, the story of Eric LaRue is set in an anonymous suburban community in the aftermath of a shocking crime committed by the high school-age […]
Not since gin and vermouth first met ice has any cocktail sparkled so purely, so perfectly, so powerfully as Porchlight Theatre’s crazy collision with a fateful iceberg, Titanique, now running […]
The vastly talented Colombian singer, songwriter and producer Ela Minus sold out Chicago’s iconic Schubas Tavern last week as one of her only stops on her U.S. tour. Supporting her […]
The Art Institute’s new Frida Kahlo exhibit aims to illuminate her connection with Mary Reynolds, an American expatriate artist and bookbinder who encountered Kahlo in Paris at a pivotal point […]
They were the most English of British Invasion bands. While other English musicians adopted American styles and turned their backs on their own musical traditions, the Kinks doubled down, writing […]
Stage Left Theatre, a Chicago company with 40 years of history, is redefining storefront theater with its new production, The Distrikt of Lake Michigun, in an empty retail space on the […]
About six miles north of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is a satellite campus known as The Cloisters, a set of medieval stone buildings set at the top of […]
The Winter’s Tale is an unusual story, with two acts so different in tone that the play can be difficult to produce. Fortunately, Invictus succeeds. Under Charles Askenaizer’s direction, Winter’s […]
Hannah Frey and I share a Chicago timeline. I first discovered her on a weekend home from college listening to NPR on my mom’s speakers utterly transfixed by her song […]
In the pantheon of Disney characters, the only one as iconic and enduring as the Mouse of the House himself is perhaps Snow White, the fabled parent-less princess and star […]
Opus is the story of a young writer named Ariel (Ayo Edebiri), who works at a music publication but is largely considered the most junior staffer at the magazine. She […]
Nothing says willing suspension of disbelief like children watching a show. For the young ones gathered at Chicago Children’s Theatre’s world premiere of a new version of Go, Dog, Go, […]