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The only thing more charming than Two Gentlemen of Verona in the park is Two...
The servants steal the show in Midsomer Flight's production. What is lovelier than Shakespeare in the park on a day in midsummer? What could be more meet for an afternoon of leisure than a comedy...
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Kentucky duo the Other Years evoke the rusticity of old-time music with...
Louisville, Kentucky, outfit the Other Years carry on a vibrant old-time music tradition that summons the spirit and soul of rural mountain music, but the melodic sophistication and instrumental...
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Chilean trumpeter Benjamín Vergara returns to Chicago to celebrate the...
One of the most wonderful phenomena in the world of improvised music is that players can come together with little more than an introduction and proceed to create work in which they rapidly forge...
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Rest offers a simple yet radical premise: let’s all take a nap outside together
Free Street Theater's summer performance argues that sleep can be a powerful and political act of self-care. Let's face it: American society has weird hang-ups about sleep. Be it in the workplace,...
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Victims of Duty: An absurd show for absurd times
A Red Orchid revives its 1995 staging for the Trump era."We are not ourselves."—Victims of Duty A Red Orchid Theatre first produced Eugène Ionesco's Victims of Duty in 1995.…
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Blindspotting and Sorry to Bother You expose the class tensions often...
Two of the year’s best movies come rocketing out of Oakland, California. Trouble is brewing in Oakland, California. Two weeks ago Annapurna Pictures released the surreal, satirical Sorry to Bother...
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LGBTQ young people reimagine their autobiographies as Scary Stories to Save...
Vampires, stalkers, monsters, and other horrors included. This powerful 50-minute devised performance by About Face Youth Theatre is a collection of sketches, monologues, and movement pieces...
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Eclipse Theatre’s year of Inge continues with a poignant Bus Stop.
Strangers stranded in a cafe are forced to reexamine their lives. Eclipse Theatre Company continues its season dedicated to the work of William Inge with this 1955 play set in a Kansas bus-stop cafe...
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In the silent classic The Lighthouse Keepers, styles and emotions come...
Jean Gremilion directed this eclectic French tale of a lighthouse keeper and his half-mad son. This Saturday, Music Box will screen Jean Grémillon's extraordinary silent feature The Lighthouse Keepers...
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Flight Club Darts Chicago is a flight of fancy
Raw oysters, rosé cotton candy, hookah-smoking sloths, and darts—what more could you and your Anglophile friends ask for? There is something delightfully and absurdly random about Flight Club Darts...
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Wiry Chicago punks Negative Scanner sound as furious as ever on their...
Three years can be an eternity in the course of a young, razor-sharp punk band, but on their bristling new album Nose Picker (Trouble in Mind) Chicago’s Negative Scanner sound almost as if they’ve...
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Young shoegaze maven Will Kraus expresses himself even more clearly on his...
Last year Will Kraus, who records full-bodied, blistering shoegaze songs under his last name, talked to Pitchfork about his ambiguous lyrics. “It’s about half just kind of saying stuff into the...
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The music of Atlanta outsider artist Lonnie Holley remains as homemade and...
Self-taught Atlanta musician and visual artist Lonnie Holley has accrued ardent supporters since he dropped his first recordings earlier in the decade. Tonight he rolls into town with Animal...
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Deafheaven mix soothing and scathing sounds on their new album Ordinary...
California’s genre-bending five-piece band Deafheaven have just about perfectly mastered the art of harnessing metal ferocity to a shimmering, shifting, rolling sound that’s perversely relaxing and...
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Chicago singer-songwriter Gia Margaret gets cozy on There’s Always a Glimmer
The songs on Gia Margaret’s new debut album, There’s Always a Glimmer (Orindal), glow like the warm beams of a flashlight hidden inside a blanket fort. She understands how to use music to portray the...
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Pedal steel virtuoso Susan Alcorn moves away from country toward free...
Baltimore pedal-steel guitarist Susan Alcorn occupies a world unto herself in numerous ways that make the sounds she creates unlike anything else out there. Thanks to her parents, she was surrounded...
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Budding Atlanta rapper Lil Baby figures it out as he goes along on Harder...
The gatekeepers of hip-hop will tell you Atlanta is the culture’s spiritual home, and rapper Lil Baby, who was born there in 1994, has been reaping its benefits through osmosis. He grew up in the same...
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Oneida return with drummer Kid Millions, now recovered from a March car crash
In March, days before the launch of a tour planned to support his band’s 12th album, Romance (Joyful Noise), Oneida drummer Jon Colpitts—better known by his stage name, Kid Millions—was hospitalized...
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Bassist Christopher Damman returns to Chicago, but his new record Restroy...
Bassist Christopher Damman may have spent the last eight years in Charlottesville, Virginia, but musically he’s a Chicagoan. He got his schooling at Northwestern University and on the bandstand of the...
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Powerhouse percussionist Greg Fox explores the biofeedback of his own body on...
Drummer Greg Fox has been duly celebrated over the last decade for his mind-melting work with a range of heavy projects including Liturgy, Zs, Man Forever, and his own Guardian Alien. Now Fox has let...
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