Emily Mcclanathan

As career transitions go, Netta Walker is diving into the deep end with her recent pivot into playwriting.

Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre's revival of a play about a family of Black women quilters in Alabama focuses on family and community.

The new novel by local author Michael O’Donnell taps into the rarefied atmosphere of the classical music world, transporting readers from the cold austerity of post-war Britain to the lush concert halls of London and Chicago.

If Hamlet were a professional wrestler, the setup to his story might look something like that of “Two Out of Three Falls,” now running at the Factory Theater.

It's a truism among arts administrators in the United States that government funding for the arts pales in comparison to many European countries.

In the world of Conor McPherson's 1997 one-actor play, St. Nicholas , vampires are surprisingly ordinary, observes the unnamed Irish protagonist

When visitors enter “Powering the Future,” a permanent exhibit that opened in May at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, they're invited to

I've had the pleasure of covering Oak Park Festival Theatre's outdoor Shakespeare productions each summer since 2023, which happens to be the same year that Peter G.

| For the Chicago Tribune On the heels of the United States' 250th anniversary, the national tour of Shaina Taub's Tony Award-winning

When I first learned that Surging Films & Theatrics planned to stage Newsies at Theater Wit, I wondered how the choreography would fit into that long, narrow space.