Can a reclusive CIA cryptologist learn to kill and avenge his wife’s murder? “The Amateur” starring Rami Malek shrugs and nods.
‘The Amateur’ review: An analog ’80s spy tale gets a wobbly update starring Rami Malek
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Artists rip Mayor Brandon Johnson’s arts commissioner, department ‘dysfunction’ in letter
The letter, posted to Instagram Wednesday as a petition people can sign, harshly criticizes Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth.
Chicago Shakes 2025-26 season: Billie Jean King play and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ musical
Also coming to Navy Pier for a very full next season, a Halloween show, “Much Ado About Nothing” for the holidays and a return for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
With comics and video games, ‘Native Pop!’ exhibits shows Native American history is not ancient history
The exhibit at the Newberry Library has everything from “Star Wars” clips to Polaroid pictures, showing through pop culture how Native stories are still being created. “We’re still here”
‘Your Friends & Neighbors’ review: What if Don Draper had stayed in the suburbs after his divorce?
Jon Hamm plays a divorced guy in the suburbs who begins burgling his neighbors.
Review: ‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ on Broadway is a don’t-miss chance to revisit his music
With a company that includes stars like Bernadette Peters who first sang in Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, shows like this won’t come around again.
Auditorium’s 2025-26 dance season includes Ensemble Español and Trinity Irish Dance
The five performances, all by female-led dance companies, conclude next spring with the annual visit by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Carolina Chauffe bring her music to Chicago’s Empty Bottle as Hemlock
Carolina Chauffe, who performs as Hemlock, has made a name for herself by embracing a free-spirited and loose approach to her music and her everyday life.
Column: As circuses change, the Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival keeps the magic alive
How long has it been since you have been to a circus? Over the last decades, what we once knew has changed.
Review: In ‘The Book of Grace’ at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on a man and his family.