Chicago’s Most In-Demand Set Designer
Yu Shibagaki has already worked on three plays opening here this year, with more to come. Her goal? That you don’t think about the set.
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Andrea Coleman’s Family Photos Have Secrets
The 25-year-old artist’s digital collages ask: If memory could speak, would it?
Finally, A Book Club on the Same Page As You
These four reading groups do away with the boxed wine and awkward prompt questions.
Inside the VR “I Have a Dream” Exhibit
The March opens at the DuSable Museum February 28.
Jane Byrne’s Cabrini-Green Stunt Gets a Theatrical Treatment at Lookingglass
Photo: Johnnyboy Photography J. Nicole Brooks has written a play about female freedom fighters in Liberia and reimagined a Greek tragedy by setting it in Haiti. For her latest, opening February 26 at Lookingglass, the Washington Park native sticks closer to home. Her Honor Jane Byrne tackles the mayor’s 1981 publicity stunt of moving into … Read more
Mikki Kendall on the Failures of Feminism
The author of the new book Hood Feminism on Lori Lightfoot, civility discourse, and why the women’s empowerment effort has fallen short
How a Chicago Lit Mag Mounts a Festival in Mexico City
Two thousand miles from home, the artists behind Make magazine have built an audience for their Lit & Luz festival.
Local Author’s Breakout Debut Is a Novel About a Novel
Books change lives — sometimes literally, as in Michael Zapata’s critically acclaimed The Lost Book of Adana Moreau.
Frequency Fest 2020 Dials in Artists from Around the Globe
This year’s iteration includes rare stateside retrospectives of groundbreaking composers Annea Lockwood and Éliane Radigue.
Magician Trent James Is the Purveyor of Pure Lies
For his next trick, this prodigy from Brookfield will change your perception of old-school magic.