Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the ...

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a series ...

The CEO of Black Ensemble Theater is disrupting her traditional formula with a new autobiographical musical — and planning an ...

Opus. It’s a musical term — meaning a set of compositions — that honors his father Beethoven and nods to the high-pitched songs that have led to these ...

The theater has announced its hugely ambitious 2025-26 season, which will also include a pre-Broadway premiere starring Megan Mullally and a musical by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

The musical, featuring music and lyrics by Grammy winner and Tony nominee Sara Bareilles, is now playing at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre, the first Chicago ... the line cook and grouchy boss ...

Gotta sing! Gotta dance! The movie musical has been with us for as long as movies have had sound, and despite some rough patches over the past century, it has taken on new life in the current ...

“It’s been a pretty fun job,” admits Daryl Cloran, director and co-adaptor with Kayvon Khoshkam of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’70s Musical. “Once we decided that this was going to ...

Watch scenes from the performances nominated for best supporting actress at the 97th annual Academy Awards, as well as ...

The “cross-generational, inclusive silliness” of this cult favorite bingo night transforms a roomful of strangers into coconspirators.

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina's singular style was often large in scope, both musically and philosophically, yet intimate in the painterly details ...