The National Endowment for the Arts, the most prominent federal arts funder, will give nearly $2 million to 80 groups in ...

Vanya” is being put on within the bare, echoing confines of the North Side’s Servi-Sure factory, a seriously real-world place ...

Vidiots and the Bob Baker Marionette Theater teamed up to provide an escape from reality for families facing trauma and loss ...

Buoyed by a successful Broadway run, the play about a bustling beauty salon opens this week at Chicago Shakespeare.

In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the ...

The Chicago Cultural Center's latest exhibit, "Potential Energy: Chicago Puppets Up Close," celebrates the city as a center ...

"Jaja's African Hair Braiding" opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, “Too Hot To Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah” at the ...

A Light in Dark Places has announced its first full length  production, Hurricane Kate, written by Scott Golden and directed ...

A Bensenville man suspected of taking part in the carjacking of a couple outside an Addison movie theater will remain behind bars as he awaits trial.

Two teenagers are accused of carjacking a couple at gunpoint outside a movie theater in Addison before leading police on a ...

A pair of teenagers accused of carjacking a couple at gunpoint at an Addison movie theater then leading police on a chase ...

Born in Portland, Maine, Lavin studied acting at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where she was deeply involved in the theater program. Her career took off with her iconic role as Alice ...