It is important to embrace the culture and free expression that define us as Chicagoans and Americans. In other words, buy a ticket and see a show. Here are five to consider.

Betty Gilpin has played a pro wrestler and a vigilante nun. Now, she’s in the Netflix hit “American Primeval” and grabbing ...

The crime-solvers of "Clue," the bugs of Cirque du Soleil's "OVO" and the experimental musicians of the Frequency Festival ...

Forget The Magnificent Seven, the inferior (although still hugely enjoyable) American remake ... by a titanic performance by actor-playwright Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager, the first man who ...

Candice D’Meza is a being that never stops evolving; she is constantly being reborn. She is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, actor, activist, filmmaker, and mother. It's so hard to pin down Candice ...

Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.” It was a ...

All working actors in Hollywood have a shared dream: win an Academy Award. Notorious politics aside, to receive the Oscar ...

I stumbled upon the news of JunYang Pow's exhibition purely by chance while scrolling through social media. The phrase ...

Since there are so many varieties of cheesy rom-coms to choose from, we’ve broken this list down into different categories to ...

But this thrilling play by the late playwright Sam Shepard is more than just any old spat between former lovers. “Fool for Love” taps into all kinds of mythical tropes, including the Old West ...

Michael Brosilow Share Lick some numbing salt from your hand and get ready with a wedge of lime, because the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Sam Shepard ... in the vast American Southwest ...

Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He was close with punk poet Patti Smith, toured with Bob Dylan and earned an Oscar nod for his portrayal ...