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

M. Sage headlines in a duo with Zander Raymond at the Hideout Credit: Ben Ward M. Sage Thu 11/6, Sage headlines in a duo with Zander Raymond; Whitney Johnson & Taralie Peterson open. 8:30 PM, the ...

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

The 35th annual First Nations Film and Video Festival showcases the spectrum of styles and subjects captivating Indigenous ...

Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.

Shepsu Aakhu's Machine Made at MPAACT draws on the real stories of political operative and organizer Chuck Bowen.

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

IDHS workers speak out after an unknown employee hung a MAGA-themed sign at the Lincolnwood family community resource center.

New Theatre Project gives David Harrower's drama about a sexual predator and his victim confronting each other a ...

India Nicole Burton's Measure of a Man honors Fred Hampton's life and urgent revolutionary activism in a riveting solo play.

The groundskeepers at Chicago’s largest and oldest cemetery make sure everybody—and every body—is treated with care.

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