The Brutality and Nonsensicality
Michael Shannon makes his leap into film directing with a Chicago-born drama about the parents of a school shooter.
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April Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
Cynthia Pelayo on Grief, Mystery, and Chicago Ghost Stories
Vanishing Daughters, written in the wake of her father’s death, is a novel about living through grief.
Enrique Mazzola
Lyric Opera conductor, power walker, Nespresso importer
Hermosa
Horror author Cynthia Pelayo recommends these four spots.
March Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
Minhal Baig
The Coming-of-Age Filmmaker
Gruesome Twosome
A is for Attic, adapted with verve by big Gorey fans with theatrical nerve.
Lookingglass Aims for New Heights With Circus Quixote
The company bounces back from a 19-month hiatus with a world-premiere adaptation of Cervantes’s classic novel about “being someone better.”
Tereasa Surratt and David Hernandez
Rustic hosts, chainsaw wielders, dog chasers