Aleshea Harris’s 2018 performance piece, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, had its local premiere this past spring with Congo Square Theatre Company in a production that played both in West Town (at GRAY Chicago) and the south side (Rebuild Foundation Stony Island Arts Bank). It’s back now in a short residency with […]
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Rapper and poet Mykele Deville signs on as the Hideout’s new booker
Rapper and poet Mykele Deville signs on as the Hideout’s new booker, ghetto-house pioneer DJ Deeon makes his debut for the Teklife label, and more.
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Chicago’s Growing Concerns Poetry Collective use kindness to unite people against bigotry
The three members of Growing Concerns Poetry Collective all juggle other practices outside their collaboration. Their CVs are too extensive to discuss exhaustively, but poet McKenzie Chinn has built a career acting onstage (she’s a Goodman Theatre regular) and on TV (she has a recurring role on CBS’s Chicago-based drama The Red Line). She also […]
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There are Chicagoans in the 2018 Chicago International Film Festival!
A mostly complete local viewing guide
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The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective celebrate their debut again—this time on vinyl
The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective celebrate their debut again (this time on vinyl), power-pop four-piece Gal Gun drop their first full-length, and more.
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The Growing Concerns Poetry Collective ask all races to fight racism
Mykele Deville, McKenzie Chinn, and Jeffrey Michael Austin—aka the Growing Concerns Poetry Collective—tell stories for black folks that aim to reach everyone.
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Ike Holter’s astonishing Sender brings a hipster back from the dead
Shade Murray directs the Chicago wunderkind’s latest, now premiering at A Red Orchid Theatre.
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Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival offers three plays worth developing
At First Look Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre’s little summer festival, the sitting is easy.