The Al Yankovic Story, which more successfully did for the biopic what Unfrosted fitfully does for the docudrama. Seinfeld ...

A breakout star at Second City, Mills directs the AAPI-focused Victor Wong showcase at the theater before heading west.

Anaiet Soul is a primarily jazz-trained multi-instrumentalist, performer, and ensemble member whose main instrument is piano.

Shootings decreased overall last year, but the opposite was true in 17 neighborhoods. Most aren't included in Chicago's ...

After the ring is found, her mother (Clotilde Hesme) asks what she can do to make up for the mistake, and Linda responds that ...

Screamo blowout ZBR Fest Midwest packs Subterranean with 28 bands, WZRD celebrates 50 years on the air with a free Martyrs’ ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including releases by Lala Lala, Sons of Ra, and ...

Folly Group’s “Paying the Price” is one of the best electronica-infused postpunk songs about shame, and it’s only a B side.

Psych-poppers Plastics Hi-Fi tried mainstreaming their trippy “bathtub symphonies” and ended up disbanding with their final ...

Two current productions of plays by the late August Wilson "create an exquisite time capsule of Black American community." ...

Since entering SAIC’s MFA sculpture program, Galen Odell-Smedley has produced a body of work conceptually astute and ...

A longtime fringe favorite gets a festival of her two-character plays in Hamburgers & Disappointment with Sweetback ...