Chicago Plays has grown from a Beverly art walk debut to installations at Navy Pier and Ogilvie Station in under a year.

About 45,000 cinephiles are expected as the festival unveils 113 features and 57 shorts, plus a first-ever Physical Media Fair.

The fourth annual festival opens at The Venue with a producer Q&A and an after-party at Craft Urban.

The 120-seat Hammond stage hunts for a typewriter light enough to move but heavy enough to look real for its Stephen King finale.

The Highland Park venue's oldest building will shut down for construction after Jacob Collier's show and reopen during the 2028 season.

CLATA's ninth annual Latino theater festival spans nine Chicago venues, from Belmont Cragin to Streeterville, through Oct. 11.

Renovations at the 72-year-old motel have preservationists scrambling to save its neon rainbow before it disappears for good.

Bril Barrett and Tré Dumas share a stage again at the Chicago Tap Summit, once distant for five years after a falling-out.

The Nederlander Theatre hosts the swashbuckling premiere next July, capping a 20-year path to the stage.

Pacifica Square's sixth annual Moon Festival hits Aurora Sept. 19 with 40-plus vendors and a ramen-eating showdown.

A Detroit muralist known as Ouizi painted hydrangeas, peonies and a red admiral butterfly outside a Skokie pilates studio.

Saving Ferris Butler runs September 18-24 at the Pickwick, with Q&As and giveaways tied to the SNL writer's Ferris Bueller claim.

A three-day tavern tour from Bridgeport to Old Town revives Nelson Algren's 1951 love letter to Chicago's underbelly.