In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

The abrupt closure of Passages’s preschool raises questions about its future at a time when other charter schools across the ...

Divyangi Shukla practices acts of great care for the damaged and the forgotten through sculpture, painting, and poetry.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the Joffrey offers some spectacular visions, but also raises questions of representation.

Theo's intimate staging of Diana brings cheeky humor and moments of poignancy to the thin tabloid tales of the Princess of ...

After nearly two years of negotiations, nontenure-track faculty members at the (SAIC) approved their first union contract in ...

Deen's dystopic comedy set at a predominantly white university overflows with sharp observations at Definition.

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

For the sixth edition of their anthology of short plays, the Impostors turn to Chicago's breezeways for inspiration.

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

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