Gun violence is highest in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, where organizers say tackling poverty is the only way to create ...

Celine Song's one-act Tom & Eliza provides a dark and absurdist twist to a relationship drama at TUTA Theatre.

Twenty years after its premiere, The Color Purple gets a glorious production at the Goodman under Lili-Anne Brown's direction ...

Madhuri Shekar's Dhaba on Devon Avenue at Writers Theatre is a touching family drama set in a struggling Indian restaurant.

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 ...

With a new EP of meticulous, melodramatic emo, Chicago five-piece Boundary Waters prove you don’t have to quit your basement ...

June has come and gone, and with it, one of the busiest times of year for drag and burlesque performers. Between Pride events ...

Aria Pedraza launches the Midwest Rave Culture Archive with a park party, Elastic Arts executive director Adam Zanolini steps ...

In red bean, an experimental film by Tianjiao Wang, tempered by a 16-mm lens, the artist observes much and judges little.

Michael Miner, a former Reader editor and columnist, was truly a journeyman of Chicago journalism and has the distinction of ...

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.

We had to bring you some of the imaginative stuff as always. Our cover story this week comes from film contributor Kat Sachs, ...