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Inside the intricate worlds of Polly Pocket

Inside the intricate worlds of Polly Pocket

An interview with collector and Instagrammer Julia Carusillo

By Megan Kirby

Top Stories

Feature

Pivot Arts Festival switches it up online

The annual celebration of multidisciplinary performance adjusts for the times.

By Kerry Reid
Lit Feature

Poetry at a distance

Poets come together to share the joy, pain, and hope from the pandemic in a new video project.

By Ariel Parrella-Aureli
Theater Review

Recommended
A trilogy for times of terror

Three streaming productions give us plenty to ponder in the pandemic.

By Kerry Reid

Columns

On Culture

Making a federal issue out of the Obama Center lawsuit

The latest hearings raise questions about who has jurisdiction.

By Deanna Isaacs | 05.27.20
On Culture

With college remote, students revolt

Petitions and lawsuits challenge full tuition in pandemic shutdown.

By Deanna Isaacs | 05.13.20

More Columns »

Performing Arts

Hubbard Street evolves with a 'new paradigm'

More Performing Arts Reviews

Theater & Performance

Blue Man Group Briar Street Theatre
Improv/Sketch

Riff Mission Theater at iO Chicago
Theater & Performance

Sexy Baby

Galleries & Museums

Firebird Community Arts rises from the ashes

More Visual Arts Reviews

Theater & Performance

. . . And I Am Not Afraid
Museums

"Energy Revolution:" Creating Our Carbon-Free Future Chicago Architecture Center
Galleries

"Woman’s Club" by Liz Weinstein Cuckoo’s Theater

Lit & Lectures

14 East tackles the wilderness of isolation

More Lit Reviews

Lectures & Panels

Wild & Sublime: Sex Masters Constellation

From the Archive

Calendar

On Stage: the story of Lincoln, but hipper

These Parts

By Diana Spinrad | 05.30.91
Performing Arts Sidebar

More Than Skin Deep

Robynne M. Gravenhorst and Debra Levasseur Lottman

By Carol Burbank | 04.04.96

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Growing up queer with The Sims

By S. Nicole Lane | 05.28.20
Reviews by a gamer(s)

By Salem Collo-Julin | 05.27.20
Cybersex and sex work in Second Life

By S. Nicole Lane | 05.27.20
Otherworld Theatre unites gamers and theater nerds

By Kerry Reid | 05.27.20
The Wild World of Animal Crossing

By Taryn Allen | 05.26.20
Interview with a gamer

By Salem Collo-Julin | 05.26.20
Victory Gardens playwrights ensemble resigns

By Catey Sullivan | 05.25.20
8
Site-specific performances moved us beyond the black box

By Brandon Sward | 05.19.20
2
What are the greatest moments in Chicago music history?

By Deanna Isaacs | 05.18.20
'Thank U, Stop': Middle Eastern artists say 'next' to stereotyping

By Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel | 05.12.20
Aloft Circus Arts and Actors Gymnasium bring the circus from their homes to yours

By Kerry Reid | 05.12.20
One murder, four years, no answers

By Maya Dukmasova | 05.12.20
5
Chicago Dance History Project archives the current moment

By Irene Hsiao | 05.05.20
Uprising Theater shifts focus from Palestine to PPE

By Catey Sullivan | 05.05.20

Popular Stories

Art Feature

Inside the intricate worlds of Polly Pocket

An interview with collector and Instagrammer Julia Carusillo

By Megan Kirby | 06.02.20
Feature

Pivot Arts Festival switches it up online

The annual celebration of multidisciplinary performance adjusts for the times.

By Kerry Reid | 06.02.20
Comedy

Jokes in the time of coronavirus 11

How soon is “too soon” when you’re living through it?

By Brianna Wellen | 03.19.20
Lit Feature

Poetry at a distance

Poets come together to share the joy, pain, and hope from the pandemic in a new video project.

By Ariel Parrella-Aureli | 06.01.20
Performing Arts Feature

Victory Gardens playwrights ensemble resigns 8

Restructuring at the top causes an exodus—again.

By Catey Sullivan | 05.25.20