Outsider musician, writer, and filmmaker J.T. IV made zero-budget movies with a punk urgency that carries across the decades.

Punk lifer Dewey Burtker supports the scene by doing more than playing in bands—he also makes show flyers and artwork for ...

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In 2024, the Illinois Lottery introduced a new joint specialty ticket where a portion of the profits raised supports ...

Mayfair Arts Center 8701 S. Bennett Avenue, Monday 10 AM-8:30 PM; Tuesday and Wednesday 9 AM-8 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 ...

The Doom of the Demeter, adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Levi Holloway's stage version of Paranormal Activity delivers the horror goods at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Redtwist Theatre returns to the original (nonmusical) version of Chicago and gives it some clever twists in this "queerly ...

Inspired by a 1970s Chicano performance troupe, Concrete Content's No Trailer sends up Latine stereotypes via sketch comedy.

In Bramble Theatre Company's world premiere of Rooted, three sisters confront the past and future, both magical and mundane.

An immigrant parent in Chicago faces the threat of deportation during the Obama years in Sandra Delgado's Hundreds and ...

Theatre Y's In Good Company community theater walk asks us to "reflect on community, democracy and belonging—one step at a ...