A soldier and an acting teacher collaborate to imitate a dictator in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin at A Red Orchid ...

Triiip is a young poet for the south west side of Chicago with a passion for words and people. Poem curated by The Third.

An aging vaudevillian and a young Black man find an unlikely connection in Charles Smith's Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues.

The June screening series at the Gene Siskel Film Center explores camp as it relates to queerness, drag, and beyond.

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

Beverly Rage of Bev Rage & the Drinks talks about combining drag with punk and the power of unapologetically queer people taking up space.

The Chicago Blues Festival brings out the best in the local scene all weekend—and here are a few dozen shows to prove it.

Nonbinary casting director and dramaturg Catherine MIller advocates for better representation onstage for trans and BIPOC ...

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The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939,” on view at Wrightwood 659, over 300 works of art explore homosexuality.

The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

Rehana Lew Mirza's Neighborhood Watch traces the growing paranoia of a white progressive living next to a Muslim family.