A musical about Larry Walters (aka "Lawn Chair Larry") makes its North American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare.

An early innovator in motion pictures comes into focus in Factory Theater's The Curious Circumstances of Louis Le Prince.

The former NBA player's unconventional self-expression had an impact on LGBTQ+ people when he played for the Chicago Bulls.

Icons” temporarily imagines a different world, in which the familiar dreams of individuals with Down syndrome become palpable ...

Jettila Lewis illustrates games and comics and makes clothes and functional art, but they work especially closely with the music community.

In new album Defiant Life, Smith plays patient melodies that course inexorably through the open, rolling terrain of Iyer’s subdued, lyrical piano and subtle electronics.

A Kyrgyzstani man stands before Judge Patrick M. McKenna at Chicago’s immigration court on June 12 when a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asks that his case be dismissed.

With Prop Thtr and the National New Play Network, Vehill was a champion of emerging writers and fringe artists for decades.

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Ben began working with wigs when the pandemic hit and quarantine temporarily shut down the drag scene. Since he wasn’t ...

Texas singer-songwriter Edith Frost makes soulful fusions of country rock and folk in step with moody indie-country ...

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