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 ...

Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.

Matt & Ben imagines the bromance of Damon and Affleck right before Hollywood success (literally) falls in their laps.

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.

Importantly, the contract also enshrines academic freedom for nontenure-track faculty, ceases to classify them as at-will employees after they complete their probationary period, and lays the ...

Welcome to the Rhinestone Digest, a monthly column looking at what makes the Chicago drag and burlesque scene tick.

The Chicago Blues Festival brings out the best in the local scene all weekend—and here are a few dozen shows to prove it.

Catalyst: Im/migration and Self-Taught Art in Chicago” at the Intuit Art Museum is a celebration of such works made since the 1940s.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

When those emotions include angry despair at the state of your whole fucking species, you’ve got to play hard enough to shake ...

Universities are prime sites of dissent, critique, and critical thinking. And this is exactly what the Trump administration ...