Jessi Virtusio

More than 50 artists, comic and video game creators, fandom artisans, vendors and writers are expected to be part of the fifth annual Comicopolis in downtown Lockport. White Oak Library...

From the title song to "Almost Paradise," "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" there is much familiarity in the musical "Footloose." The Joliet Drama...

It may not have been a box-office hit but the movie "Newsies" grew in popularity thanks to home video. Oak Lawn Park District Theatre stages the musical, which is based...

Teenagers and young adults are hard at work preparing a Curtain Call Theatre production that looks at what more than 20 individuals do for a living. The 2012 revised version...

Not only is RidgeFest marking 30 years in 2019 but Smash Mouth, one of the Chicago Ridge festival's entertainment headliners, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its multiplatinum album "Astro...

Favorite tunes from stage and screen have been reimagined for the Beverly Theatre Guild's summer cabaret fundraiser. "Remixed & Revisited" from July 26-28 at Morgan Park Academy Arts Center's Baer...

"Great food brings us together" is the tagline for McAlister's Deli, which was introduced to the Southland with an Orland Park restaurant that opened in April 2018. A second McAlister's...

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month so it was the perfect time to offer an event focusing on strength over silence. Connected by Love in association with Speakers...

Sometimes Moraine Valley Community College's Academic Theater goes outside the box for free summer performances of William Shakespeare plays, but this year offers a more classic take. "Every few years...

Polish Highlander culture takes center stage at a two-day celebration coming to the Southland. Local and international artists perform at Goralmania Polish American Food & Music Festival from July 13-14...