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Physical Theater Festival Chicago celebrates 12 years of creating community across genres and geography, and Chicago Dance ...

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The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival's developmental Puppet Lab offers support and connections for emerging ...

Christian JaLon is a South side Chicago Native. She is a singer/songwriter, poet, and published author ("'Amen" by C.J.

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught our ear—including by Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari, Bussy ...

Despite some minor hits in the 1960s, Chicago vocal group the Radiants couldn’t ride the soul-music wave they’d helped create.

Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at First Floor Theater combines environmental and existential dread with mundane frustrations.

Return to the Rec Room,” a Michael Smith retrospective at Soccer Club Club, shows the artist's longheld interest in the absurdity of life.

Antinous, the much-sculpted lover of the emperor Hadrian, tells his own story in Scandalous Boy at Open Space Arts.

Yasen Peyankov's staging of Endgame at Facility Theatre sets incredibly high emotional stakes for all the characters.