Theo's up-close revival of the sardonic Urinetown hearkens back to the Chicago fringe theater roots of its creators.

The musician uses over 20 of her songs in this loosely autobiographical jukebox musical, featuring a terrific star turn from ...

To help keep Chicago communities connected we’re participating in Newsmatch, a nationwide campaign to raise money for local ...

Brìghde Chaimbeul is an experimental composer who grew up immersed in music, studying piano and fiddle before picking up the bagpipes at age seven.

Chicago band Glyders make laid-back rock music—the kind that makes the perfect soundtrack for sunset drives down dusty roads with no destination in mind.

Three years after reuniting, Algernon sound irrepressibly vigorous, as though energized by the prospect of engaging anew with ...

The first thing that will catch your eye at a Natural Information Society concert most likely won’t be the seated musicians ...

Pamela Z’s career has been defined by the voice and how it can be a vessel for meaning, emotion, texture, sonority, and ...

Marcus Gardley's Lorca-inspired story of free Black women facing an uncertain future in 1830s New Orleans returns at Invictus.

Steven Levenson's Days of Rage traces the relationships among friends and would-be revolutionaries in the late 60s ...

Topher Payne's 2013 dark comedy Angry Fags, updated for our current authoritarian age, returns at Ghostlight Ensemble.

Chicago became a hub for beer brewing in the 19th century. By 1900, the city had around 60 breweries, thanks to an influx of German and Irish immigrants who brought with them lighter, more carbonated ...