Suzan-Lori Parks is known for writing plays about the inner lives of Black Americans. The Book of Grace is a companion to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, where brothers Lincoln and Booth live out […]
One could say I’ve been practicing listening to Free Range for quite some time.… So much so that the release of their sophomore album Lost & Found this year may […]
Anyone who thinks that 2025 does not offer the appropriate musical landscape for a gritty garage rock hybrid of early Nirvana, Weezer, and the Smiths hasn’t heard California’s Archer Oh. […]
Before returning to their homes in Berlin, the Leonkoro Quartet finished their North American tour with an entertaining concert at Logan Center in Hyde Park on Friday night. Formed in […]
There are movies, and there are musicals. There are even movie musicals. But the musical movie is something else entirely. These are films where the narrative itself is music-based. Films […]
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 […]