If you're looking for a break from the real-life horrors around us, several shows and events offer a range of options for the spooky season.

In “Sympathy Ribbon," Madeline Gallucci's sculpture and Margaret Crowley's paintings hold the tension between remembrance and transition.

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Lee Collins was a DJ’s DJ, with an ear for obscure tracks that could drive parties into a frenzy on both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

Family houses provide vital support networks and encouragement for drag and burlesque performers in the scene.

This year’s Celluloid Now festival from the Chicago Film Society includes a program of rarely screened Korean experimental films.

Chicago Children's Theatre brings back the musical based on Leo Lionni's story of an imaginative mouse and his friends.

Lauren Gunderson's The Book of Will at Promethean Theatre Ensemble shows the story behind the struggle to save Shakespeare's plays.

Young People's Theatre of Chicago delivers a charming family musical in Elephant and Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" ...

Ava: The Secret Conversations, written by and starring Elizabeth McGovern, foregrounds the Hollywood siren's men more than her career.

"Mark Me, Too" serves as an active site of “rememory,” employing mark-making to blur physical and metaphysical constraints.