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His first full season as artistic director of St. Paul’s Park Square Theatre wasn’t to end until this summer, but the theater’s board of directors voted Oct. 13 to cut ties with F… Read full article: St. Paul’s Park Square Theater cuts ties...→

In a message to Bureau of Prisons’ staff, Director Kathy Hawk Sawyer stressed hiring will be a main priority of the bureau in the coming year. Read full article: Bureau of Prisons director cutting inter...→

Scissorhands: A Musical Inspired by the Film is back to puncture your heart and tickle your funny bone. The dinner theater experience presented by The Fuse Project re-imagines Tim Burton’s classic film starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder for the small stage, and it was such a huge hit during the holidays last year, they … Read full article: Theater Pick: Scissorhands- A Musical In...→

Galina Volchek, a prominent Russian theater director and actress, has died at the age of 86 Read full article: Russian theater director Volchek dies at...→

Last month Polo G's major-label debut, Die a Legend, ranked number 46 on the Billboard 200 while Chance the Rapper's The Big Day sat at... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best hip-hop artist...→

Among the contenders for the title "Best pizza" this year, you might have been surprised to see the name of Reader staff writer Leor Galil.... Read full article: Staff Pick: Third runner-up, best pizza...→

On its website, Jefferson Park's tiny the Gift Theatre states as one of its founding beliefs that "a play never closes until everyone who saw... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best off-Loop theater | Best...→

Unlike musicians, dancers never put their instruments down. That's especially true of Red Clay Dance, where the intersection of art and activism falls under a... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best dance company...→

It's not uncommon for newbies to leave Trap Door wondering what just hit them. Since founding the 45-seat Bucktown company over 25 years ago, Beata... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best off-Loop theater...→

Lorena Cupcake is an arts and culture writer, social media expert, and—­according to the Reader's Best of Chicago poll—one of the city's top budtenders. Originally... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best budtender...→

Why are there four T-shirt shops within a block of each other in Andersonville? Strolling north on Clark from Foster Avenue one soon understands the... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best T-shirt shop...→

Before Adidas opened its flagship Wicker Park store in 2017, Saint Alfred was the only shop along Milwaukee Avenue you'd be guaranteed to find sneakerheads... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best shoe store...→

“Sometimes the softest touch is enough to drive you the wildest/Caught in between another sleepless dream,” Pearl Charles coos invitingly on the title track of her 2018 album, Sleepless Dreamer. The native Los Angeles vocalist uses a soft touch as she wanders through a set of original pop, country and soul tunes such as “Long Hair” … Read full article: Music Pick: Pearl Charles - LA Weekly...→

A new dimension in immersive art awaits you when you experience Moving Arts, an initiative of Theater at The Museum that involves the ongoing exhibitions and installations sprinkled throughout the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read full article: Theater Pick: Moving Arts at LACMA - LA ...→

Nov. 11 (UPI) — Former Detroit Lions wide receiver and No. 2 overall NFL Draft pick Charles Rogers has died at 38 years old. Rogers’ death Read full article: Ex-Lions Wide Receiver, No.2 Pick Charle...→

Burgess Clark, a veteran theater educator and playwright, resigned last Tuesday. Read full article: Boston theater director is accused of in...→

Now in its 19th (!) year, Zombie Joe’s 50 Hour Drive-By Theater Festival features five short plays written, directed and “courageously-erected” in just two short days, then presented to the public. The set of plays premieres on Saturday night, with two performances following on Sunday and Monday. We recommend checking ’em out Monday for a … Read full article: Theater Pick: Zombie Joe’s 50 Hour Drive...→

For nearly 30 years, every Monday night from September to May, the Blank’s 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood has hosted freshly developing work by a consciously inclusive roster of emerging playwrights. Read full article: Theater Pick: The Living Room Series - L...→

On Saturday, the Fire made another addition, plucking a second name from Heitz’s Rolodex with the hire of Sebastian Pelzer as technical director.... Following his playing career that included more than 350 appearances, Pelzer worked at Heusler Werthmüller Heitz AG, Heitz’s soccer consulting firm. Wicky, Heitz’s first big hire, was at FC Basel the same time as Heitz. Read full article: Fire continue building soccer staff, add...→

Hollywood director Larry Charles seems sure that if President Donald Trump is not impeached, riots will break out across the country. Read full article: 'Borat' Director Larry Charles Warns of ...→

Punk musician and engineer Blake Karlson launched Chicago Research in late 2018, and since then he's used the label to document every scrap and fleck... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best local label...→

When the big theaters have a changing of the guard in artistic directors, it's understandably big news. But in a city as dependent on the... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best transitions to new lead...→

First off, let me concede that you gotta like Pat Hughes. Hate the Rickettses and what they've done to Rickettsville, hate the Cubs and what... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best sportscaster...→

The best professional baseball games I've experienced in recent years have all taken place at an unusually tidy ballpark wedged between I-294 and the Metra... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best pro men’s sports team...→

Steppenwolf   Runner-Up Ghostlight Ensemble   Finalists: Otherworld, Above the Law... Read full article: Best off-Loop theater company...→

Great DJs keep their ears open to the world, and Duane Powell knows how to listen. He's been plugged into local music since 1983, when... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best house music DJ...→

The head of First Lady Chirlane McCray’s embattled mental health program, ThriveNYC, claimed that it doesn’t have an abnormally high staff turnover rate — even though the plan’s own data says… Read full article: ThriveNYC director downplays program’s a...→

British theater director and presenter Jonathan Miller, the star of the 'œBeyond the Fringe' comedy revue, has died Read full article: UK theater director, producer Jonathan M...→

A request from Classic Cinemas to sell alcoholic beverages during shows at its St. Charles movie theater has prompted the city to consider creating a new liquor license classification. Read full article: St. Charles considers liquor license for...→

Cori Laemmel helps kids in her community through the performing arts. Read full article: Hundreds of kids surprise beloved theate...→

Longtime Denver film programmer Keith Garcia has been promoted to be the artistic director of the Sie FilmCenter. Read full article: Keith Garcia and Matthew Campbell Take A...→

Samuel Beckett’s Quad is a play, and yet it’s not a play. First performed in a 1981 German TV broadcast directed by the Irish playwright himself, the work has no dialogue. Read full article: Theater Pick: Samuel Beckett's Quad - LA...→

While relatively few Off-Broadway shows open each year in early January, a major exception is the Public Theater’s 16th annual “Under the Radar Festival,” Read full article: Artistic director goes 'Under the Radar'...→

Following his playing career, Pelzer worked at Heusler Werthmüller Heitz AG, Heitz’s soccer consulting firm. Raphael Wicky, Heitz’s first big hire, was at FC Basel the same time as Heitz. Read full article: Fire continue building soccer staff, add...→

The Chicago Cultural Center sits in the middle of downtown—it's just west of Millennium Park, a stone's throw from the Magnificent Mile and the Art... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best attraction...→

In 1931, chewing gum entrepreneur William Wrigley Jr. gave an industrial building at 509 N. Union to the Salvation Army, which started collecting donated goods... Read full article: Staff pick: Best huge old thrift shop, a...→

Years ago at the bar, a man named Paulie told me all about the neighborhood that I live in now. It's west of Canaryville, north... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best neighborhood...→

Muntu's ambitions are vast, both in terms of space and time. Helmed by executive director Sekou Tepaka Lunda Conde, the 47-year-old South Shore-based company aims... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best dance company | Best of...→

It might seem strange to think of the Poetry Foundation as in need of a booster—after all, it was one of two top finalists for... Read full article: Staff pick: Best poetry organization...→

This year marks the 27th in a row I've contributed, in one form or another, to an alternative weekly's Best of issue. Most years, the... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best Greek Restaurant...→

Chicago is a lucky spot for people who like emerging and otherwise overlooked visual art. We have a bunch of college programs in the area... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best art gallery...→

“My students inspire my creativity on a daily basis,” she said. Read full article: Ontario High theater arts director has a...→

Playwright Maxwell Anderson’s 1939 play Key Largo, which was transformed into the classic 1948 film by director John Huston that starred Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson, centers on a jaded Army veteran who eventually redeems himself in a standoff with mobsters at a Florida hotel as a hurricane approaches. In a new … Read full article: Theater Pick: Andy Garcia Leads Cast of ...→

Richard L. Buick, 30, was in the driver’s seat of a vehicle about 9:30 a.m. when a gunman approached him and fired shots outside of Moving Everest Charter School in the 400 block of North Laramie Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County m Read full article: Staffers rush to aid man fatally shot ou...→

Tim Bond, who has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and garnered acclaim for theater direction, succeeds Robert Kelley at TheatreWorks. Read full article: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has found it...→

The artistic director of the Boston Children’s Theatre has resigned amid allegations from 17 former students of inappropriate behavior, according to a report. Burgess Clark, who has held his post a… Read full article: Boston youth theater director resigns am...→