The Reader revisits a 1987 feature on iconic actor Robert Townsend that reads "like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations." ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including by Hannah A. Barnes, Look Both Days, and DJ Manny.

Music Theater Works goes into the high-spirited pink with Legally Blonde this holiday season.

A Jewish American playwright tries to unlock the story of her family's history in the Holocaust in The Berlin Diaries at Open ...

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

The Reader Institute for Community Journalism (RICJ), publisher of the Chicago Reader, is offering a paid editorial internship opportunity to enthusiastic and qualified candidates for the spring ...

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Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America’s Racial Enterprise by Rebecca Zorach (University of Chicago Press) “Monuments,” writes Northwestern art and art history professor Rebecca Zorach ...