Organizers tell the Reader it’s often difficult to figure out who agents took. Sanchez recalls searching two abandoned cars ...

Next month, I travel to Saint Louis for my very first out-of-town gig. While I saw a few drag shows during college in Santa ...

Are we living through a more malevolent version of a Marx Brothers movie right now? That’s the premise laid out by the ...

Aguijón Theater's Uz, el pueblo, presented for this year's Destinos festival, is a dark comedy about faith and family.

Music of the Mind” at the MCA, you’ll encounter the artist at the epicenter of the avant-garde again and again.

Plus: Illinois prisons pilot no-cost phone calls and the OIG accuses the mayor’s office of thwarting surprise inspections.

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 ...

The Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary, producer the Twilite Tone and rapper Your Stepdad drop new music, and more.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications is a rarified archive that contains within its scope the full backdrop of our collective culture.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia makes a chilling update to Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 cult masterpiece Save the Green Planet!.

Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's bombastic Jekyll & Hyde gets a clever and intimate revival with Kokandy Productions.

Young adult author Hal Schrieve approaches vampire stories from the monster’s perspective, including with hir third book, ...