Best of Fall: The Crafty Activist
Dorothy Burge stitches historical significance into her quilts of Black veterans.
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Best of Fall: The Graphic Stenographer
Tony Lewis connects the dots between language and art.
Best of Fall: The Soul Searcher
Back to her country roots, singer Stella Lefty is out to prove she’s no one-hit...
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...
Five Things to Do: January 31- February 2
What to do in Chicago this weekend.
February Agenda
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
New Podcast Revisits Studs Terkel’s Division Street America
A team of journalists — including Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich — follow up with...
Five Things to Do: January 24-26
What to do in Chicago this weekend.
Mikki Kendall
The activist author, 48, on segregation’s upside, spite’s role, and why Michelle Obama was wrong
Five Things to Do: January 17-19
What to do in Chicago this weekend.
Chicago Performers to Catch at the Puppet Theater Festival
Every January, our city becomes host to a veritable United Nations of Puppetry — and...
Tress to Impress
Fresh from Broadway, director Whitney White returns home with a comedy set in an immigrant-owned...