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To play and party ‘til the morning, then sleep from day to night is just a day’s work for the average rock star, right?

An Evanston playwright hopes to make his audience members examine their own religious and racial divisions. He’s written a play called Defamation.

Musicians and other artists in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood joined forces: They’ve found new spaces in which to collaborate and produced sound-rich results.

Two upcoming dance performances involve unusual theatrical twists: One takes inspiration from a classic noir film, the other looks to Shakespeare’s Henry V. Both ask whether all is fair in love and war.

Celebrations of the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ended for the year but the Jewish season of rejoicing continued Wednesday with the festival known as Sukkot.Chicago writer Ellen Blum Barish was thinking about the places where her life and the deeper meanings of the holiday intersect

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