Dave Malloy's a cappella musical Octet at Raven is one of the most engrossing pieces of theater onstage so far this year.

The Hula Hoopin' Queen closes out the season at Young People's Theatre of Chicago with a joyous story of friendship and ...

TUTA's Crime and Punishment offers a spare but effective take on Dostoevsky's novel—set in an onstage bed of soil.

Sheriff Tom Dart is quietly lobbying the Cook County board for an AI jail security system and nearly $1 million for license ...

Everything from the emails you send to the photos you save on your phone is stored in a data center. For decades, data ...

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is best known as a sideman to Magic Sam and Muddy Waters, but he could tear up a stage all by ...

The artworks in Mike Cloud and Nyeema Morgan’s “Story Structure, Pt. 2” at Neubauer Collegium are grounded in varying ...

In Pandemonium, Please Hold on the Second City Mainstage, political grandstanding takes a back seat to unlikely encounters ...

Norse gods battle it out in this rock musical, but good and evil isn't clear-cut in Lifeline's Loki—The End of the World Tour ...

Alina Astrova, who makes music as Lolina, crafts avant-pop sound collages that defy expectations. Born in Russia and raised in Tallinn, Estonia, Astrova moved to London in 2006 to study arts criticism ...

Australian duo Armlock dress up straight-as-an-arrow forlorn indie rock with the kind of expertly deployed special effects that helped make Alex G famous—a guitar that sounds like it’s stuttering and ...

If you like a little homemade theater, a lot of silly gallows humor, and a twinge of danger in your punk rock, you might love Philadelphia band Evil Sword.