Deanna Isaacs

She Who Dared centers the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott and the landmark case of Browder v. Gayle.

The "sublime match" of Pene Pati and Ailyn Pérez as Rodolfo and Mimì is one of many reasons to see Lyric's La Bohème.

"$acred Motherhood" at Woman Made and the Amy Adams film have a lot in common when it comes to examining the maternal state.

Anti-choice plaintiffs are again attacking the Illinois Reproductive Health Act's stipulation that state-regulated insurers cover abortions.

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston has a new name to reflect its shift in focus to Indigenous people of the Great Lakes.

The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston has a new name to reflect its shift in focus to Indigenous people of the Great Lakes.

Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's opera about one Black family's tragedy caused by police violence makes its Lyric debut.

Seitu Hayden was a college student when he created Waliku, a Black life comic strip that ran in the Chicago Defender in the 1970s but looks contemporary today.

Barbara Gaines's staging of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at Lyric Opera balances the story's farce with transporting moments.

Historic and haunting Graceland Cemetery is part of the Chicago Architecture Center's annual Open House Chicago this weekend.

Matthew Ozawa's staging of Beethoven's only opera is powerful and compelling.

Matthew Ozawa's staging of Beethoven's only opera is powerful and compelling.

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the wings.

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the wings.

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the wings.

The opera season kicks off with a stunning Rigoletto at Lyric, with Fidelio, COT's Leonora, and Haymarket's Tamerlano in the wings.

Tricia Romano's rollicking oral history of the Village Voice is catnip to journalists and anyone who has loved alternative weeklies.

Tricia Romano's rollicking oral history of the Village Voice is catnip to journalists and anyone who has loved alternative weeklies.

The Chicago History Museum's Paul Durica takes us on a stroll through Chicago political conventions of the past.

Want to move people to action? Call in the designers. Need to right the ship in a hurry? Same. On the Sunday in July when Joe Biden announced he was passing the torch, the Biden/Harris design team leapt into emergency responder mode, rebranding the campaign within hours with a “Harris for President” logo fashioned to […]