Alandra Hileman's dark comedy about falling in love (literally) with Death gets an intimate staging with Open Space Arts.

Albums from This Is Lorelei and Marcus Drake speak to the ongoing vitality of the community built by defunct Chicago indie label Grandpa Bay.

In her six-decade career, Paulette McWilliams has made countless stars sound better—but too few people know how great she sounds herself.

Leroy and Lucy at Steppenwolf tells a blues story that puts African myths and Western storytelling conventions in the crossroad.

Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie, a memory play about two women in Ontario, feels overloaded in Gwydion Theatre's production.

Rebecca Gilman's stalker drama Boy Gets Girl gets a chilling revival with MadKap Productions at Skokie Theatre.