A props designer and a director talk about the challenges and payoff of working with food (and faux food) onstage.

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Lauren M. Gunderson's world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare celebrates Billie Jean King's challenges and achievements, on and ...

Corbett vs. Dempsey presents “Poised Compression," the first Chicago solo by Rosa Barba, comprising five deconstructed cinematic apparatuses.

In Nick Payne's Incognito at Tin Drum Theatre, a scientist steals Einstein's brain—and then things get really weird.

In Theatre Y's dark and absurdist Frontieres Sans Frontieres, a group of children face the consequences of imperialism.

Jessica Risker returns after seven years with a dreamy new album, Grunts Rare Books launches a sound-art series, and more.

This year's Lolla lineup is one of the worst in recent memory.

Brea Fournier & the Dream Ballet's 2024 debut album is a borderline rock opera that mixes pop punk, indie rock, new wave, and alt-pop, with lyrics that relate a loose narrative of a manic pixie dream ...

Unlike some modern saxophonists, Patrick Shiroishi doesn’t emphasize the physicality of the instrument, but he does like to push its range.

Family Junket sprinkle their exuberant collisions of neosoul, funk, and R&B with spacey textures and touches of psychedelia, and the joy they take in making music together bursts through every note.

Animated Australian psych rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are touring on their orchestral album Phantom Island, released in June via their p(doom) label.