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Through 4/10: Mon-Sat 12-2 PM and 7-9 PM CDT, mundanemysterieschicago.com, $40. The operatives at The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (now making their Chicago debut with Bramble Theatre after originating with Torontos Outside the March) do not offer your usual interactive show. This is apparent even before their sleuthing properly begins. After procuring a ticket, you must divulge the details of an especially vexing mystery from your life. It must be something you want solved. It can�...

Artemisia Theatre Announces Virtual World Premiere of Lauren Ferebees GOODS The year is 2100. Marla and Sam are celebrating their 20th anniversary working together as interplanetary trash collectors.by BWW News Desk Two intergalactic trash collectors, both women, one Black, one white, are hurtling through space toward the finish of their anniversary route, ready to celebrate their return to Earth. But a surprising job sends them back out to the asteroid belt and forces them to make a devastati...

The Daily Yonder Industry Lobbying Left Nursing Homes Vulnerable in Pandemic Lax regulations and minimal enforcement left the nursing homes exposed to dangers of highly transmissible diseases long before the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic hit. Share this: Nursing home employee Ashley Ford at her home in DeMotte, Indiana. (Photo by John J. Watkins for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting) Even before Covid-19, aides caring for elderly and disabled people in nursing homes often were o...

The Jan. 7 death by suicide of Glenbrook North High School student Dylan Buckner is just one example of why parents are concerned. Buckner’s father in a Tribune interview said his son’s isolation and lack of school activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to his struggles. “I would argue, and I believe strongly, that Dylan’s death is not going to show up in COVID statistics, and yet absolutely it’s a COVID death,” Chris Buckner said. Las Vegas-area school officials moved ...

The series of four shows later in March will include socially distanced seating and will come roughly a year after the state's stay-at-home order put the local music industry mostly into limbo.

The Cabinet, through 5/22: available for download 24 hours after purchase, cocechicago.com, $15. It Is Always Almost Upon Us, through 3/31: available online anytime, 16thstreettheater.org,  F. In Willy Russells 1980 play Educating Rita, the title character (a working-class hairdresser taking Open University literature courses in London) responds to the question "Suggest how you might resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsens Peer Gynt" with "Do it on the radio." De...

Chicago Detours Hosts Live, Interactive BADASS WOMEN OF HISTORY Virtual Event Event highlights diverse historical women with Chicago ties that forged groundbreaking paths in science,  business, culture and social justice.by BWW News Desk Chicago Detours, voted "Best Tour of Chicago" by the Chicago Reader in 2019, today announced the "Badass Women of History," live and interactive virtual event, highlighting diverse historical women with Chicago ties that forged groundbreaking paths in scienc...

Watch as a woman tries to figure out why she keeps feeling cold air blowing on her in her bathroom.

Senyawa vocalist Rully Shabara in a February interview with Reader contributor Joshua Minsoo Kim for his online music zine Tone Glow. “But is that true?” Shabara, 38, and instrument inventor Wukir Suryadi, 43, founded this Indonesian duo in 2010, and when I first wrote about them in 2014, I said their largely improvised music “combines the ancient gravity of a firelit ritual and the electric futurism of the avant-garde.” Senyawa know they aren’t engaged in a mass-market enterprise, s...

Azita Youssefi has been making music in Chicago for 30 years. Thomas Comerford The first time you see "If U Die," the new video from Chicago singer-songwriter Azita Youssefi, it might take you a minute to realize that the colorful rock band youre watching is actually four matted-together versions of a single person. Its Youssefi in every role: the shaggy, smiling...