As Sandy Shinner's tenure as producing artistic director at Shattered Globe winds down, she reflects on her decades in Chicago theater.

A real estate investment trust is a firm that owns and usually operates income-generating real estate and related assets.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Emancipation Park," magicfeifei’s show at SkyART South, traps viewers in a taboo relationship dynamic: that between old men and young girls.

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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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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