Through heat waves and snow storms, Chicago has a tradition for waiting in long lines for a restaurant: Kasama, Del Sur Bakery, Au Cheval. In the last months of Hot Dougs, wait times exceeded two ...

Lauren Betts, Gabriela Jaquez, and Charlisse Leger-Walker stunned the UCLA men's basketball crowd with their moves.

A flick of the wrist, a tip of the hat, elbows snapping into right angles and fingers flaring apart— the musical “Chicago” pulses with choreography inspired by Bob Fosse’s signature style, commanding ...

The Indiana Fever are hosting auditions later this month to find new members of the "Fever Inferno Hip-Hop Squad," the team's official dance team. The Fever Inferno bring high-energy performances to ...

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Winter Series 2026 showed mastery, but didn't manifest the distinction between impressing and expressing.

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater joins Chicago Sinfonietta in an unstoppable collaboration that ignites the stage with an empowered tribute to women who break molds, blaze trails, and rise.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a stitched-up middle finger to the patriarchy. Also ...

You can also stop by a small press book fair, harvest honey at Plant Chicago or attend a bonfire after a bike ride.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

One whiff and I was back at Smartbar in 2016 with my husband, bodies in motion under the dance-floor lights, the air filled with the scent of florals and warm woods.

Nejla Yatkin, who will perform in Chicago on International Women's Day, said she's thinking about attacks on women’s autonomy ...