You enter through an unmarked alleyway, glowing strings of lights leading you to a cobblestone courtyard and ornate parlor that resemble a Parisian hideaway. You forget where you are…

Chicago's hardest working, hardest hustling R&B band, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, celebrate a new album on Bloodshot, Howl. Recorded in Montreal, the platter sees the soul act impressively stretching out…

Comedic music trio Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, known collectively for their SNL digital shorts like "Dick in a Box" and "I'm on a Boat," make their first live appearance in Chicago in support of their third album, The Wack Album, which features guest shots by Kendrick Lamar, Adam

The zany showcase of avant-garde clowning features Dean Evans's weirdly unsettling character Honeybuns, a lumpy, yellow-hued creature billed as "the world's greatest mime."

When was the last time a play made you jump in your seat? Theater can be a difficult medium for suspense, but Zayd Dohrn’s 2010 drama about illegal-immigrant smuggling shows how effective a live thriller can be…

Grieving the recent loss of her daughter, Dinah (Jennifer Joan Taylor) decides to reconnect with her cousin Jeanette (Liz Zweifler)…

Manual Cinema presents a shadow-puppet play with music about a cowgirl from outer space.

The premise sounds too funny to be a drama: a WWII soldier charged with writing a show to entertain his fellow soldiers with the orders "Needs music. And they like drag." But New Colony has more to explore than mere camp in this new play.

In her first major solo museum exhibition (co-organized by the MCA and the MIT List Visual Arts Center), the London-based Argentine artist examines communication—in particular, the act of listening—and civic participation through drawings, sculptures, installations, projections, large-scale photogr

Primus was one of the strangest success stories of the '90s…