The most famous occult Chicago film is almost certainly Candyman (1992), largely set in Cabrini-Green and featuring many more ...

Vershawn Sanders-Ward talks about what she looks for in collaborators with her company; plus changes at Lookingglass and Lifeline.

Structured as a series of obituaries, Eden Robins’s literary puzzle box uses an AI character's story to examine the very ...

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at ...

The more government, the more injustice.” At Mazdaznan’s peak around 1908, he attracted some 18,000 followers worldwide, ...

Subtext Studio Theatre's Que Te Vaya Bien, about a father and son confronting their issues at Wrigley Field, delivers a ...

Chicago organizers have long joined together across racial, ethnic, and geographic lines in the fight for a better city.

ZeroEyes proponents say it will improve public safety by helping police respond faster to potential gun threats. But there ...

November 5th will mark the first time in the city’s 187 year history that Chicago has elected a school board. Don't panic!

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before ...

For this iteration of the project 60 wrd/min art critic, Lori Waxman reviewed work made by Red Line Service artists.

For their ten-year celebration in September, Mr. Man released a list of their top ten favorite nude scenes of all time, ...