If you're looking for a break from the real-life horrors around us, several shows and events offer a range of options for the spooky season.

Young People's Theatre of Chicago delivers a charming family musical in Elephant and Piggie's "We Are in a Play!" ...

"Mark Me, Too" serves as an active site of “rememory,” employing mark-making to blur physical and metaphysical constraints.

At its core, Pretty Good Fest is a “way to meet nice people who make art,” said Davis, and, in that spirit, it will end with an afterparty and comics reading on the hotel’s first floor beginning at ...

A Q&A with the young actor and Columbia College Chicago graduate making her feature film debut in One Battle After Another ...

The prison industrial complex is a vast network of thousands of businesses that profit from mass incarceration.

Neo Sora, director of Happyend (2024), spoke to the Reader about Japanese history, fascism, and how near the film's “near future” really is.

The federal government recently paid a company in Lake Forest $1 million for launchers to shoot pepper balls like those showering protesters.

Lee Collins was a DJ’s DJ, with an ear for obscure tracks that could drive parties into a frenzy on both sides of the Atlantic.

In “Sympathy Ribbon," Madeline Gallucci's sculpture and Margaret Crowley's paintings hold the tension between remembrance and transition.

Pleasure Cruise” at Roots & Culture is a conceptually ambitious show trying to navigate waves of joy only to chart two different courses.

This year’s Celluloid Now festival from the Chicago Film Society includes a program of rarely screened Korean experimental films.