The company's one-weekend revival of Poor Poor Lear takes them back to where it all began in 1999 as an aging actress plays the addled king.

I knew I was in for something good when I felt uneasy stepping into “Emancipation Park.” I’m convinced that one of the most powerful things art can do is unsettle, and magicfeifei’s show at SkyART ...

Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano at Writers Theatre traces the thwarted ambitions and romances of women under house arrest in 1991 Havana.

John Reeger's Changing Channels at City Lit takes place in 1952, but feels eerily relevant to what's happening at the networks now.

I think people are too hard on Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 setting to music of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Either its record-breaking Broadway run, the embrace of excess in ...

Highlands REIT, a Chicago-based real estate company, is moving forward with plans to lease a private prison it owns in Colorado to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison giant GEO ...

Southeast side residents gather to discuss community needs as developers push forward with a $9 billion quantum computing center.

The UI system and Northwestern agreed to scrap programs meant to uplift students and faculty from marginalized backgrounds.

In groups big and small, AACM reedist Ed Wilkerson has combined the joyous immediacy of early jazz with the daring collisions of the avant-garde.

Nearly a decade has passed since clarinetist James Falzone left Chicago to assume the post of professor of music at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. But he keeps coming back.

The founder of the Instagram-based community archive talks about preserving snapshots of love, resilience, and everyday Latine life in Chicago.

Experimental musicians Michael Vallera and Steven Hess follow their impulses in the collaborative project Cleared.