A clash between a grad student and the dean of a theater department takes center stage in Omer Abbas Salem's One Party Consent.

In the world premiere of Susan Soon He Stanton's Cygnus at Gift Theatre, a young woman's trauma meshes with mythology.

Indiana Jones and video games combine in Factory's latest pastiche, Kitty James and Destiny's Trail to Oregon.

If it wasn't for playing in bands and doing that for all those years," says Mikel Galati of Modest Merch, "I wouldn't have my career.” ...

Chicago Record Report covers new local music that's caught the Reader's ear—including releases by Nestor Arriaga, Facs, Oux, and Traxman.