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An Evanston exhibition revisits the clairvoyant brilliance of the English mystic-artist William Blake and his influence on twentieth-century psychedelia.

Porchlight's inaugural production in their new home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts feels ripped from today's headlines.

Free Street Theater's latest work is thematically and geographically centered in Chicago's Mexican-American communities.

Lewis returns with large-scale drawings and haunting sculptures made from remnants of a previous show.

"Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath."

Seven women take on the figure in all kinds of media.

New paintings by Kunz shows off her eye for color and formal interplay.

Masters of figural abstraction from different centuries go tête-à-tête.

This revival of Thornton Wilder's strange and strangely prescient play feels as bizarre as it does familiar.

Stephen Adly Guirgis' play wrestles with the motivations behind Christianity's greatest betrayal.

Syntax and form are thoughtfully explored in this playful, petite show.

Diplomatic architecture is more than high security, energy-efficient, sleek buildings. It’s meant to represent nations, their people and values.

Verdi's tragic opera is lightened by standout performances from veterans and newcomers alike.

Chicago is home to over 7,000 restaurants, and it’s safe to say that many Chicagoans, including food writers, have never heard of nor visited more than a fraction of those places.

Written and directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri, "Quixote" stumbles in its attempt to connect history's most infamous knight errant with contemporary audiences.

A literal fox hunt finds deep allegorical resonances in this Midwestern premiere with echoes of "The Crucible."

Local dance curator Cynthia Bond presents an Illinois Humanities-supported partner program of space, memory, and the invisible social bonds and barriers that inform them.

Bannos does her level best to make whole what she calls Vivian Maier’s fractured archive.

The biopic of FBI associate director Mark Felt, better known as “Deep Throat,” a key source for Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting.

This month Billy Corgan returns to us—or rather, he comes home to debut yet another transparent transformation, this time as “William Patrick Corgan”—for a two-part concert.

Meloche's latest window installation takes the cracks of a Ukrainian Village cathedral as inspiration for renewal.

Capricorn: A snail climbed to the top of a big turtle's shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. "Wheeee!," the snail thought to itself.

Cris Mazza's "Charlatan," a collection that includes stories from 1979-2013, takes risks in style, and are intimate and unsettling in content.

Emptying the mind is not the same as being empty-headed. It’s a serious discipline that allows one to better experience the new and unexpected.

A few small slices of the hundred-plus features coming October 12-26.

Silken pre-Code romantic comedy perfection in restored 35mm.

There's no other movie star at ninety-one like Harry Dean Stanton

Libra: You're a good candidate to be a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes.

Counting a list in excess of over 250 participating locations, up from last year’s total of 150, the surge parallels growing excitement over the Biennial and the deepening focus on Chicago as the nation’s laboratory for cutting-edge architectural theory and praxis.

A review of Patricia Ann McNair’s latest collection of essays and reminiscences on growing up, losing family members, travel, dancing, writing, and sex, entitled “And These Are The Good Times.”

October food and drink delights from beer and brats to dessert.

In Chicago's October literary world, start with Ali and end with a festival of language, literature and art.

Ancient Mayan ruins were cast in plaster and presented at 1893’s World’s Columbian Exposition, where Wright was a regular visitor.

The mighty CAB continues apace while Open House Chicago and the Terrain Biennial join the fray.

Among the offerings in music this month, there's a punk a capella group and the sounds of seventies pop.

In October film events, start the month with Fassbinder's "Fox and His Friends" and finish it off with films at the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival.

Is it a Teen Dream to discover your gym teacher is cool?

Take a deep dive into the local film culture with October's "Film 50"feature and buy your tickets to "Signature Move."

This year's Film 50 celebrates those that get the art into the world and onto screens large and small and into archives and onto screens again through intricate networks of economies and affinities.

Love is a transaction.