Wit, warmth, style, and charm are the enduring hallmarks of this show, and it’s good to see it back in all its glory for the ...

Ethiopian Dreams brings an autobiographical exploration of Ethiopian culture and circus arts to Chicago Shakespeare.

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Tyler Anthony Smith's high-concept Queen for a Day with Hell in a Handbag is a darkly goofy comedy about fame and isolation.

Cocojoey plays a homecoming show to support the wild new Stars, Roy Kinsey inaugurates the Rapbrary’s physical home, and more ...

Split Lip's "absurdly entertaining" second production, Merry We: An Elite Comedy, marks the DIY company as one to watch.

I wish I had seen just a few minutes of a circus art performed, especially juggling, because clowns often do juggle, and our villain, Jimmy Knives himself (played with main-character panache by Quinn ...

"Steelmakers" is an accessible entry point to the environmental, industrial, immigrant, and labor histories of the Calumet region.

With three days of nonstop entertainment, including two stages of live music, West Fest is one of this summer’s most highly ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as pleasure.

Among the new class of shoegaze artists powering the continuing resurgence of the genre, many cite Whirr as a foundational ...