Vince Black's colorful career has taken him through hippie band Yama & the Karma Dusters, the London punk scene, and gigs ...

EXPO Art Week kicked off with the Renaissance Society’s RenBen, where over 400 guests attended Maurizio Cattelan’s Silent Party at the Chicago Athletic Association. Sticking a pin in the vacuousness ...

Last week, Oregon label Jealous Butcher Records released Sanctions, the first album from Chicago alt-country group Souled American in 30 years. That’s a long time for any band to go without a new full ...

Marsha Norman's Pulitzer-winning drama about a depressed daughter and her mom provides an overwhelming emotional journey.

Max Wolf Friedlich's drama at Writers Theatre packs a lot of debate about the psychological effects of our digital age into one act.

The Teachers for Social Justice curriculum fair invites educators to share what the rest of the country is being told to stop teaching.

The Dover Road, a satire about fussy Brits eloping, works better in parts than as a whole in Ghostlight's Glessner House staging.

"Castle" is a semiotic puzzle accomplished through formal experimentation and the idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of Amy ...

The poetry of Shivani Gupta, drenched in personal memory, masters the delicate craft of creating space for a reader to see ...

Founded in 1986 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Afghan Whigs have walked a long, rambling road with many detours and potholes—and ...

Chicago takes its public art seriously—which is why a Big Tech-funded mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has ...

D.C. trio the Messthetics combine jazz and punk, but that was never the far-fetched proposition it might sound like on the ...