The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we need you to chip in, even if it’s ...

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

Noah Diaz's You Will Get Sick at Steppenwolf leans a little heavy on the whimsical metaphors, but the performances are ...

Backed by a revolving cast of musicians he calls the Nephews, TJ Kennedy belts out weathered, sloppy outlaw country, with an ...

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

The Evanston company celebrates 46 years of producing classic and contemporary plays from the African and African American ...

On their debut album as Juanita & Juan, Jungle Cruise, Bag and Powers sound so charming you’ll wish you were aboard their cruise ship.

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

In Kimberly Akimbo, a teenage girl with a progeria-like condition wrestles with mortality and a dysfuctional family.

Divyangi Shukla practices acts of great care for the damaged and the forgotten through sculpture, painting, and poetry.

This synth-heavy Chicago rock band make music for people who want to have fun even when they’re morbidly concerned about the ...

Behind a curtain in his workshop is an enormous retro memory processing server, which Salvador sometimes plugs himself into ...