The Des McAnuff-directed Summer: The Donna Summer Musical begins with a seasoned Donna Summer, or Diva Donna (Dan'yelle Williamson), recounting…
In the dicey business of bringing historic opera to contemporary audiences, Lyric Opera's current production of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The…
Antarctica has hit a record high temperature. Sixty thousand known cases of the new coronavirus are causing global panic. Australia…
Claude McKay Love recounts his life in two parts that many will be familiar with: before college and after college.…
Long before smartphones provided immediate access to porn and the ubiquitous "dick pic," gay men were limited to physique magazines,…
Among the matches burning in the dumpster fire of U.S. immigration is the system of chutes and ladders facing foreign…
It's not every day you see 128 roof tiles displayed on a gallery floor, ash from joss sticks painted on…
Anton Chekhov's famous dictum that if a gun is introduced in the first act, it must go off by the…
Kate Hendrickson directs the Chicago premiere of Krista Knight's Lipstick Lobotomy, an arch but moving 2019 play about mental illness,…
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates laid out "The Case for Reparations" in the Atlantic in 2014, Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic A Raisin…