Catey Sullivan

Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, Ling Ma, a Cubs Convention, and more ways to stay busy this month

Photo: Juli Del Prete The 27-year-old playwright and DePaul lecturer grew up in El Paso, Texas, just across the border from Ciudad Juárez. The unsolved murders of hundreds of women...

Thom Yorke, Cendrillon, Danc(e)volve, and more picks selected by our culture critics

This month's best art, music, theater, dance, festivals, and more, as picked by Chicago's critics.

The Chicago Duck Derby, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, the Fly Honey Show, and more

Giordano Dance Photo: Gorman Cook May 31–June 3 Festival Maifest Lincoln Square Chicago’s summer street fests are best enjoyed early in the season, before they become inescapable, and festival fatigue...

Beer Under Glass in the Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago's finest food trucks at Lincoln Park Zoo, Macbeth at Chicago Shakes, and more.

Apr. 2 New Music Savior Loop For its new-music series MusicNow, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra produces the world premiere of composer Amy Beth Kirsten’s chamber opera Savior with her vocal-theater...

The Glenwood native's world premiere upends the lynching-story stereotype.

Mar. 1–Apr. 7 Theater Time Is on Our Side Lake View History, some say, is written by the victors. Not so in this R. Eric Thomas comedy about a pair...