The company's one-weekend revival of Poor Poor Lear takes them back to where it all began in 1999 as an aging actress plays the addled king.

I think people are too hard on Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 setting to music of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Either its record-breaking Broadway run, the embrace of excess in ...

Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano at Writers Theatre traces the thwarted ambitions and romances of women under house arrest in 1991 Havana.

Highlands REIT, a Chicago-based real estate company, is moving forward with plans to lease a private prison it owns in Colorado to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison giant GEO ...

John Reeger's Changing Channels at City Lit takes place in 1952, but feels eerily relevant to what's happening at the networks now.

Leor Galil (he/him) started writing for the Chicago Reader in 2010. He joined the staff in 2012 and became a senior staff writer in 2020. Galil mainly covers music, with a singular focus on Chicago ...

The UI system and Northwestern agreed to scrap programs meant to uplift students and faculty from marginalized backgrounds.

Southeast side residents gather to discuss community needs as developers push forward with a $9 billion quantum computing center.

The founder of the Instagram-based community archive talks about preserving snapshots of love, resilience, and everyday Latine life in Chicago.

Eileen O’Neill Burke promised to protect pretrial justice. One year in, her policies suggest a return to the politics of punishment.

The 2026 municipal budget opened the door to slot machines in city bars and restaurants—but some doubt the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

Experimental musicians Michael Vallera and Steven Hess follow their impulses in the collaborative project Cleared.