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George Orwell's best-selling dystopian novel receives an urgent adaptation at AstonRep.

The world premiere adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel revisits a mysterious double murder and the young woman at the center of the crimes.

The stage adaptation of John Buchan's novel, made famous by Alfred Hitchcock, plays south by southwest of Chicago at Glen Ellyn's McAninich Arts Center.

Glimpses of the self-described “cobbler” to the world of fashion and hundred-thousandaires everywhere.

Historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. "People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end." You Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks.

John Synge's mythic epic receives its first Chicago production in over a century.

“The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry” by David L. Carlson and illustrated by Landis Blair, is a remarkable debut. As the story of Matt Rizzo unfolds, we discover how he remade his life through poetry and imagination.

Steppenwolf's season opener sends unclear signals of the road ahead while offering memorable performances from two of its most celebrated ensemble members.

Jennifer Reeder discusses current and future projects just as her first feature, "Signature Move," is about to premiere in Chicago.

EXPO 2017's final day of programs focused on the Middle East, the global art world, and local connections to Chicago.

Galleries from Mexico City, Reykjavik and New York are among Newcity's top booth picks at EXPO 2017.

Painting takes prominence at EXPO 2017's emerging Exposure galleries.

This epic follows Abraham Lincoln’s daily interactions and dreams leading up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, fluidly and superbly.

He’ll show you the Life of the Mind!

Michael Keaton will bite your ear off, if you don't stop talking about your nefarious plans to destroy the planet.

Collaborating with artists to produce new work that responds to the physical and psychic nature of a space, and considers historical and cultural frameworks, has always been central to our mission.”

These guys are just so freaking happy to be playing rock ’n’ roll.

“Up Right Chicago” will feature ten initiates and ten practitioners, including Cave and longtime project partner, Bob Faust, anchored by the more than 200 Studio Gang-designed Stage Buoys.

"In reassembly, building components are taken apart, moved around, piled up and mixed with new construction to create alternative uses. This approach views a building’s materiality as a matter-of-fact, while stripping away the assumptions commonly associated with disused properties.”

"A Southern Exposure" will include a survey of South Side icons including many of the architects and styles that made Chicago famous, including buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham and Eero Saarinen.

In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing.

The site-specific performance will continue their investigation of “intimacy and domestic space within legacies of modernist architecture.”

A wholly other manner of found footage film, 533 lost reels of nitrate film from the 1910s to twenties unearthed in the Yukon Territory.

For its sophomore outing after a successful debut two years ago, the Chicago Architecture Biennial wisely looked outside our city’s borders for its vision, appointing the LA-based duo of Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to give it fresh eyes.

Maybe you don’t need one, but a gorgeous emotional catharsis never hurt anybody, and Crowder damn well delivers.

“Riot Mike” Petryshyn and his organization have always stayed true to their punk-rock roots, but each year they’ve also expanded the musical palette to include acts outside that generously defined genre, and this year is exemplary in terms of including not only other styles of rock, but hip-hop too.

In these times, DCASE's Daniel Schulman is especially focused on the emerging museums and institutions that evoke a people's history of Chicago.

There is no tyranny of influence in this French thriller about youth and terrorism.

Taurus, "Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind," advises George Clinton. "Bullshit thoughts rot your meat."

From The Readymade Thief to And These Are the Good Times.

Papi’s World gets into fast fashion, slow

“There’s never been such a fast and affordable sushi place like this west of the river”

“It always bothered me that there weren’t any strip-mall casinos in the fiction, or big-box stores, or electronics. We wanted modern, more complicated stories that didn’t live up to those western stereotypes where everybody is in a cabin and lives far from the interstate.”

From Harry Styles to Las Minas Puerto Flamenco.

“Signature Move,” opens on September 29 at Chicago’s iconic Music Box Theatre and Newcity covers the fall arts season