From traditional (A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker to brand-new, there are holiday shows for almost every taste onstage this ...

Chicago drummer Lily Glick Finnegan and New York violinist gabby fluke-mogul throw it in the sink at this weekend’s Catalytic ...

Bill Morrison’s short film about Augustus’s death, Incident, is screening Monday, December 9, at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Morrison, who has watched the bodycam and surveillance footage of the ...

The Reader is free—but producing it isn’t. As a nascent nonprofit, we need your support to produce the news, interviews, ...

Who's Holiday returns to Theater Wit, with Veronica Garza again dishing the dirt (and bringing the laughs) as middle-aged Cindy-Lou.

Thornton Wilder'sThe Long Christmas Dinner, now revived by TUTA, traces one family through 90 years of mundanity and loss.

A new report found the department responsible for government contracts doesn’t monitor whether companies violate ...

Opened in 1974 as part of the University of Chicago’s art department, the Smart has long since become a stand-alone ...

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Bump in the Night Theatre's Jump Scares, Vol. 1 offers a sampler platter of spooky stories in an intimate setting.

With her long-gestating debut album, The Star, east-side rapper Asha Omega speaks to the importance of self-knowledge and healing.

Coalesce’s music feels like a bitter black mass whose apocalyptic textures are countered only by the band’s dark humor.