Vershawn Sanders-Ward talks about what she looks for in collaborators with her company; plus changes at Lookingglass and Lifeline.

Kerry Reid (she/her) has been the theater and dance editor at the Chicago Reader since 2019. Graduating from Columbia College in 1987, she worked with several off-Loop theater companies before ...

Structured as a series of obituaries, Eden Robins’s literary puzzle box uses an AI character's story to examine the very ...

November 5th will mark the first time in the city’s 187 year history that Chicago has elected a school board. Don't panic!

The most famous occult Chicago film is almost certainly Candyman (1992), largely set in Cabrini-Green and featuring many more ...

Euripides's Hippolytus meets early aughts pop-star traumas in Justine Gelfman's The Love Object at Story Theatre.

Subtext Studio Theatre's Que Te Vaya Bien, about a father and son confronting their issues at Wrigley Field, delivers a ...

The more government, the more injustice.” At Mazdaznan’s peak around 1908, he attracted some 18,000 followers worldwide, ...

A guide to the Chicago Reader's October 17, 2024 issue, devoted to spookiness, the Occult, and more, with a magic spell for you to try.

A descendant of a victim of the Salem witch trials confronts contemporary traumas in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem at ...

IN MEMORIUM ANDREAS VON ZIRNGIBL BORN MAR. 30, 1797 DIED AUG. 21, 1855 A VETERAN OF 1816 BATTLE OF WATERLOO ...

In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.