Albums from This Is Lorelei and Marcus Drake speak to the ongoing vitality of the community built by defunct Chicago indie label Grandpa Bay.

In her six-decade career, Paulette McWilliams has made countless stars sound better—but too few people know how great she sounds herself.

Leroy and Lucy at Steppenwolf tells a blues story that puts African myths and Western storytelling conventions in the crossroad.

Rebecca Gilman's stalker drama Boy Gets Girl gets a chilling revival with MadKap Productions at Skokie Theatre.

Alandra Hileman's dark comedy about falling in love (literally) with Death gets an intimate staging with Open Space Arts.

Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie, a memory play about two women in Ontario, feels overloaded in Gwydion Theatre's production.

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College ...

The nonbinding referendum follows Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election—while poll workers report their own harassment.

Twenty-three years have passed since Jan Jelinek released Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records, where the budding Berlin producer transformed samples of jazz albums into minimalist techno tracks. The album ...

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