Ghostlight Ensemble's site-specific Drink the Past Dry combines elements of Doctor Who with a real-life bar setting.

Eclectic Full Contact Theatre revives Alan Ayckbourn's early comedy about infidelity and mistaken identities, Relatively ...

Endless Reveries: Water in Experimental Film Thu 5/22 at 7 PM, the Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, free ...

Third is a SouthSide born rapper and teacher with a deep affinity for words. As a lyricist and storyteller, Third is always ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

In the shadow of Cook County Jail’s brutal red-brick facade, on May 10, dozens of Chicagoans built community and kept vigil for incarcerated mothers and caregivers separated from their families by the ...

Bylines labeled “Chicago Reader Staff” are used for features that contain nonwritten, nonreported information like listings, for event and organization announcements by noneditorial personnel, and for ...

Walter King Jr.s Diary of a Black Illusionist showcases the west-side native's breathtaking artistry at Chicago Magic Lounge.

Keiko Green's Gorgeous, a coproduction of Raven and Rivendell, is a smart two-hander about loss, change, and a prize English bulldog.

Nonbinary performer and writer Will Wilhelm celebrates queerness and Shakespeare in Gender Play, or What You Will at Steppenwolf.

Reid was a freelance critic for the Chicago Tribune for 17 years, and has also contributed to several other publications, including Windy City Times, Chicago Magazine, Playbill, American Theatre, and ...

Karel Čapek's 1921 sci-fi classic R.U.R. gets a timely makeover for the age of AI at City Lit Theater in Bo List's adaptation.