Making 'The Pillowman' for a Modern Chicago Audience

Making The Pillowman for a Modern Chicago Audience

March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 by Sarah Steimer

Concrete Content updates the play, drawing parallels to the city’s history of police torture — while making theater that responds to the moment.

March 6, 2025March 5, 2025 by Lynette Smith

Traveling to the team’s far-flung season opener? This is how to get the most out of your trip.

March 14, 2025March 3, 2025 by Lynette Smith

Jazz virtuoso Isaiah Collier faces our incendiary times head-on with his music.

March 4, 2025February 24, 2025 by Lynette Smith

Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month

February 20, 2025February 17, 2025 by Sarah Steimer

What to do in Chicago this weekend.

February 25, 2025February 5, 2025 by Lynette Smith

A is for Attic, adapted with verve by big Gorey fans with theatrical nerve.

May 28, 2025February 4, 2025 by Sarah Steimer

The company bounces back from a 19-month hiatus with a world-premiere adaptation of Cervantes’s classic novel about “being someone better.”

February 6, 2025January 27, 2025 by Lynette Smith

Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month

January 24, 2025January 23, 2025 by Sarah Steimer

A team of journalists — including Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich — follow up with the families of seven Chicagoans from Terkel’s 1967 oral history.

January 22, 2025January 21, 2025 by Lynette Smith

The activist author, 48, on segregation’s upside, spite’s role, and why Michelle Obama was wrong