The third annual Cariño Festival de Cine will continue to honor the legacy of its namesake by supporting local emerging ...

ROOMS with dropshift dance uses Edgewater's Gunder House to explore physical and personal interiority through movement and ...

In both the teleplay and film version of 12 Angry Men, juror two is initially seen to be timid and impressionable, though he ...

Rebecca Gilman's stalker drama Boy Gets Girl gets a chilling revival with MadKap Productions at Skokie Theatre.

This is the most important fundraising moment of the year for the Reader. As a nonprofit, we count on donors like you to ...

City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and written by Joshua Eferighe that uses prose and photography ...

Whenever I can help make the crowd move or sing, there's a type of unity," says dancer, pianist, and singer Kopano. "The ...

A reflection on basketball, education, and systemic racism 30 years after the release of the Chicago documentary Hoop Dreams ...

In her six-decade career, Paulette McWilliams has made countless stars sound better—but too few people know how great she sounds herself.

Alandra Hileman's dark comedy about falling in love (literally) with Death gets an intimate staging with Open Space Arts.

Marcus Drake and Nate Amos of Grandpa Bay, flanking the label logo Credit: Veronica Martinez for Chicago Reader In 2011, Nate Amos moved to Chicago with his friend Ryan Murphy. They were the core ...

Opinion: Chicago, from David Mamet’s perspective, has lost its ability to offer anything new to the world, other than images of violence.