Paying homage to beloved pop cultural influences is a drag and burlesque staple, but there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.

Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2000 play about faith and punishment, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, feels newly relevant at City Lit ...

Taco Bops, aka Tshoma Pugh, catalyzed the hip-house scene and helped launch the first all-rap radio show on the city’s ...

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A professor faces challenges in her personal and professional life in the world premiere of Amy Crider's Buddha's Birthday at Lucid Theater.

Abyssal Zone Collective's nonhierarchical approach to examining "end times fascism" pays off in Holy, Holy, Holy.

The state’s attorney lobbies for a forensics lab, Cook County jail’s population ticks upward, and the chief judge builds out EM.

The charm of the 2001 film Amélie doesn't translate well in the stage musical, now onstage with Kokandy Productions.

South-side Latino postpunk and darkwave trio Imperfections are certainly a band worth catching early in their career.

At this solo concert, part of Experimental Sound Studio’s Option Series, Kim will perform “Silk Echoes Beneath the Light,” a ...

If there’s one DJ to know out of all the talent that emerged from New York’s early-2000s nightlife culture, it’s Eli Escobar. The veteran producer and song-selector extraordinaire is as famous for his ...

Ever since local indie-rock project Options debuted with 2014’s What You Want, main man Seth Engel has continued to release short-and-sweet songs that are equal parts hooky and glum.