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Like several post-pandemic shows in Chicago, the Artistic Home’s production of The Pavilion, written by Craig Wright and directed by Julian Hester, is about an intimate…
Chicago band Gentle Heat play no-nonsense indie rock that captures the allure of a towering blaze in the space of a single spark. On their new…
When everyone on the stage is excellent, it shows a director fully in command of the material. That’s the case with Cody Estle’s production of The…
In the 2015 horror film The Blackcoat’s Daughter, there’s a midnight scene where a teenager named Kat slips out of her room and into her boarding…
The late, great Tupac Shakur once wrote a poem about a rose that grew from a crack in the concrete. The anomaly of a gorgeous flower…
“Here is a theater. No curtain, no wings, no scenery. Just an empty space.” Konstantin Treplev, the young and hungry artist manqué in Anton Chekhov’s Seagull,…
The latest issue The latest print issue of the Chicago Reader is the issue of May 12, 2022. This issue is being distributed today, Wednesday, through…
On an industrial strip of Rockwell just off Elston, beyond a white door with numbers painted in red, past a makeshift bar, through a dark curtain…












