At the very start of What the Constitution Means to Me, author Heidi Schreck (charmingly played here by Maria Dizzia)…
"This ain't Walter Lee Younger's Chicago no more," declares Black Che (Robert Cornelius), a sort of griot of the housing…
click to enlarge My house smells like slow-cooked pot roast and marijuana. Why? Well, I'm slow cooking a pot…
Dan Clancy's four-person play about two couples living a middling life in a middle-class suburb, Middletown, is the kind of…
Entering the Black Ensemble Theater, home to a company with the mission of eradicating racism, theatergoers are offered refrains of…
It's a Sunday and the theater is packed, an abnormality for any comedy spot in Chicago. Around 40 people situate…
ShareTweetPin0sharesIt’s nearly springtime in Chicago! As the weather starts to thaw, our months’ long hibernation can finally end. For those…
ShareTweetPin0sharesCoronavirus COVID-19 has been on the minds of people around the world for the past few months, and for good…
Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe click to enlarge Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the…
click to enlarge Since the release of their self-titled debut in 2017, Chicago's Mute Duo--aka pedal steel guitarist Sam…