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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Even in the enormous crowd for Gracie Abrams, it still felt like she was singing just to you. Courtesy of Charles Reagan.

What’s in a Festival Performance? Four Headliners at Lollapalooza Make It Look Easy

By Nolan Shaffer / August 21, 2025
Head Arts Editor Nolan Shaffer analyzes what made the biggest names of Lollapalooza so special.
With the precision and energy that Timothy Edward Kane brings to his role of the Poet, An Iliad feels real and relevant. Photograph courtesy of Court Theatre.

In An Iliad, Revelation and Illumination (Again)

By Nolan Shaffer / August 21, 2025
Court Theatre’s fourth restaging of the play continues to punch, reminding audiences of the power of contemporary adaptation.
Jacinda Ratcliffe and Dano Duran in Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. Courtesy of Michael Brosilow.

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing Skids Off the Road

By Zachary Leiter / June 28, 2025
This production of Evanston becomes about so many things—anxiety, suicide, climate change, technology, the supernatural, grief, love—that it isn’t really about anything.
John Judd and Esteban Andres Cruz in Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin. Courtesy of Evan Hanover.

Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin Dazzles and Delights

By Zachary Leiter / June 28, 2025
Such sweet, magical, well-constructed art as A Red Orchid’s Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin is not just rare to find in the theater. It is rare to find in the world.
Jade Chinese Music Ensemble members take a final bow after their Spring Concert of "Music in Popular Chinese Culture." Courtesy of Emma Edwards.

Jade Chinese Music Ensemble Blends East and West

By Jessalin Nguyen / June 20, 2025
On a rainy Sunday afternoon, the ensemble performed a dozen arrangements, taking listeners through centuries of musical history.
In her first night at the Salt Shed, Michelle Zauner cultivated a dreamy aura with a graceful stage presence and an unabashed flair.

Japanese Breakfast Brings a Bittersweet Taste to the Salt Shed

By Nolan Shaffer and Ciara Balanzá / June 16, 2025
At the For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) tour, Michelle Zauner refreshingly evoked the album’s dreaminess and titular emotion.
"Dance for me Wallis" choreographed by Siqi Xu. Courtesy of Rhythmic Bodies in Motion.

Rhythmic Bodies in Motion Stuns at Annual Showcase

By Violet Conklin / June 14, 2025
The UChicago dance RSO reminds the audience to be Here, There, Everywhere.
Chad Bay and Justin Albinder in Yasmina Reza’s Art. Courtesy of Nomee Photography.

Remy Bumppo’s Art Is Bright White and Brilliant

By Zachary Leiter / June 8, 2025
Art is fleeting, of a time and place, and, at its best, transformative.
Tyler Hyde, de facto lead vocalist of Black Country, New Road, exemplifies their new sound with her bow poised over the bass strings and her pick hanging out of her mouth.

Black Country, New Road is Back with a New Sound

By Josie Barboriak and Sofia Hrycyszyn / June 8, 2025
Folksy and upbeat, with colorful strings reminiscent of its cover art of a sun in sunglasses, Black Country, New Road’s Forever Howlong is the album of the summer.
Dan Cobbler, David Lovejoy, and Genevieve Corkery in Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo. Courtesy of J. Michael Griggs.

A Naked Astronomer and a Twice-Clothed Pope: Trap Door’s Galileo Thrills

By Zachary Leiter / June 8, 2025
This is a show so full of spectacle and movement, noise and light, that one cannot help but be snatched and thrashed alongside Galileo.
The film poster for Friendship. Courtesy of A24.

Allegory of the Man Cave

By Shawn Quek / June 6, 2025
Friendship marks Andrew DeYoung’s disturbingly funny and brilliantly off-putting directorial debut.
Kris Tori, Marvin Tate, Willie Round, and Matt Fleming in Richard Maxwell’s The End of Reality. Courtesy of Karl Soderstrom.

Two Spectacular Hours of Nothingness and Blood in The End of Reality

By Zachary Leiter / June 4, 2025
The audience, like it or not, is stuck in this world, with all its monotony, uncertainty, and sudden flashes of light and darkness.
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