When Ron “OJ” Parson thinks about the past century of Black arts, he can’t help but zero in on one genre: theater. The resident artist of the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre, Parson had an idea ...

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A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. NEW YORK CITY: Benson Drive Productions has announced the three artists selected to participate in their inaugural BDP Edinburgh Fringe ...

Few know the work of playwright August Wilson quite like director Ron O.J. Parson. In 2027, the longtime resident artist at the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre will complete Wilson’s famed ...

Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large ...

Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a "massive, multi-domain, multi-language" ...

North America's largest robotics trade show opens Monday in Chicago with a different question than it has asked in any of its previous 49 editions: not whether humanoid robots are ready, but how fast ...

Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with former Huntington Theatre Managing Director Michael Maso and philanthropist Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical ...

Angel Okeke, a junior at the Academy at Palumbo in Philadelphia, wanted to make sense of the loss of her best friend’s brother to a tragedy spurred by gang violence. Isadora Pendygraft, an eighth ...

North America’s largest robotics and automation event brings humanoids, AI, industrial robots and the future of automation to McCormick Place June 22-25 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Automate 2026, North ...

Ava Pickett just opened her play “1536” in London. Next up: a TV adaptation, then a project with the filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. “1536,” which reached the stage last year, is Ava Pickett’s first ...