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Georgette Heyer's beloved novel receives a lively adaptation at Lifeline Theatre.

...the company visibly honed in on choreography that ranges from small—an almost imperceptibly slow decent by dancer Rena Butler from standing to sitting in a chair—to massive, with the combined Hubbard Street professional, Hubbard Street II companies and fifteen additional dancers from their professional training program creating a emotionally powerful moving tableau of humanity that evoked the march of our species through time.

William Finn's semi-autobiographical and deeply personal musical explores the life of the mind while under siege from within.

Shabana Azmi is one of the greatest, most acclaimed actors in the world, having won more National Film Awards in India than anyone else in history, male or female. Having been cast to play the mother in “Signature Move,” the movie that Newcity co-produced and that we shot last summer in Chicago, Brian Hieggelke took advantage of this opportunity to interview Azmi about her career.

A timely and clever theme sets apart this exhibition of paintings and sculpture.

A meditative reflection on sound and body, movement and mind.

Portraits and still-lifes pose subtle but emotionally-charged glimpses into moments of loss and solitude.

Across moving and still images, Lilli Carré explores the bodily limits of figurative animation.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.”

“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.”

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.

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.”

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

It's September, and that means Oktoberfest.

You should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth and your future.