With the new Singin’ to an Empty Chair, Ratboys have become a national act—but their commitment to Chicago remains as strong ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Women in Chicago dance are shaping the field by creating new works and fostering new generations of artists onstage and off.

Sydney Genco shines in The Posthumous Trial of Giulia Tofana, based on the legend of a 17th-century Italian woman.

Illinois residents are pushing back against proposed data centers. A new state bill could change who has power in those ...

Kelly Moran has taken the piano far—and vice versa. Born and raised in Port Washington, New York, Moran began studying the instrument at age six and expanded into bass, guitar, clarinet, oboe, and ...

When we look back on Chicago music of the 2020s, it’ll be defined in part by the kids who borrowed the title of the Neu! song ...

Ryan Oliver, who balances stand-up, busking, and working in an iron mill, doesn't want to make entertainment from other ...

Mickle Maher's 2015 play about the doomed path of digital communication, Song About Himself, returns with Theater Oobleck.

Experimental bass clarinetist Emily Rach Beisel loves to get musicians in a room together. Among their many accomplishments in Chicago experimental music and jazz, Beisel founded the monthly Pleiades ...

Matthew Ozawa uses lavish spectacle and heartfelt performances while exploring Puccini's orientalism through VR in this Lyric ...

Mike Newquist's bravura solo outing in Becky Mode's Fully Committed at the Den makes up for some of the not-so-fresh elements ...