A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid ...

Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the ...

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She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.

Triiip is a young poet for the south west side of Chicago with a passion for words and people. Poem curated by The Third.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

The Chicago Blues Festival brings out the best in the local scene all weekend—and here are a few dozen shows to prove it.

Connective Thread,” curated by Michelle Alexander at Ivory Gate Gallery, gathers works by women artists that acknowledge ...

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Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

Samantha Crain's newest album has an unhurried energy and openness, and Crain broadens her folkie palette into more experimental and psychedelic territory.

Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.