Young adult author Hal Schrieve approaches vampire stories from the monster’s perspective, including with hir third book, ...

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia makes a chilling update to Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 cult masterpiece Save the Green Planet!.

The 35th annual First Nations Film and Video Festival showcases the spectrum of styles and subjects captivating Indigenous ...

IDHS workers speak out after an unknown employee hung a MAGA-themed sign at the Lincolnwood family community resource center.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.

Shepsu Aakhu's Machine Made at MPAACT draws on the real stories of political operative and organizer Chuck Bowen.

Short-lived and underappreciated Chicago eight-piece Aura created an ambitious fusion of soul, funk, acid rock, and jazz on ...

Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's bombastic Jekyll & Hyde gets a clever and intimate revival with Kokandy Productions.

India Nicole Burton's Measure of a Man honors Fred Hampton's life and urgent revolutionary activism in a riveting solo play.

New Theatre Project gives David Harrower's drama about a sexual predator and his victim confronting each other a ...

The groundskeepers at Chicago’s largest and oldest cemetery make sure everybody—and every body—is treated with care.