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Plus: Chicago fails to notify residents of contaminated drinking water and Alderperson Walter Burnett is stepping down.

Tyler Anthony Smith's high-concept Queen for a Day with Hell in a Handbag is a darkly goofy comedy about fame and isolation.

Split Lip's "absurdly entertaining" second production, Merry We: An Elite Comedy, marks the DIY company as one to watch.

Wit, warmth, style, and charm are the enduring hallmarks of this show, and it’s good to see it back in all its glory for the ...

Ethiopian Dreams brings an autobiographical exploration of Ethiopian culture and circus arts to Chicago Shakespeare.

I wish I had seen just a few minutes of a circus art performed, especially juggling, because clowns often do juggle, and our villain, Jimmy Knives himself (played with main-character panache by Quinn ...

"Steelmakers" is an accessible entry point to the environmental, industrial, immigrant, and labor histories of the Calumet region.

Cocojoey plays a homecoming show to support the wild new Stars, Roy Kinsey inaugurates the Rapbrary’s physical home, and more ...

At Sawhorse, “Far Down the Phantom Air” unites the prehistoric and the postindustrial into a devotional that poses worship as pleasure.

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.

Bodock's “dark if by day” draws viewers into a ceremony of wayfinding, collapsing past and present in an otherworldly apparition.