



Out Chicago, Nov. 30, 2025
On this week's show: – Singer-songwriter Paul Williams (rebroadcast of a previous “Out Chicago” interview) – Christopher Pazdernik, Jeff Award-winning director and producer, and managing director of Season of Concern, an organization founded in 1987 to support Chicago theater practitioners afflicte…

Out Chicago, Nov. 23, 2025
On this week's show: – Asher McMaher, executive director of Trans Up Front IL – Tara Mallen, artistic director of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, on their 30th anniversary season and December 9 benefit screening of “Ghostlight” – Paul Oakley Stovall of Writers Theatre, which is performing “As You Like …

Out Chicago, Nov. 16, 2025
On this week's show: – Karen Reitan, president and CEO of the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago – Lesley Ann Warren, Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, who is hosting “Clue: The Movie 40th Anniversary Screening,” November 16 at Chicago’s Studebaker Theater – Russell Thomas of Lyric Oper…

Out Chicago, October 26th, 2025
On this week's show: – John Waters – Chase Glenn, new executive director of the GenderCool Project – Tim Rhoze and Bria Walker-Rhoze of “The Baldwin|Giovanni Experience,” which will have its world premier at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre in Evanston, November 1-16 Catch “Out Chicago” Sundays from 11:…

Out Chicago, October 19th, 2025
On this week's show: – Jess Wilcox, curator of Wrightwood 659’s “Scott Burton: Shape Shift,” a comprehensive look at artist Scott Burton, who blurred the boundaries between art and design, identity and public space – Marielle Kraft, indie-pop singer-songwriter who performs at Schubas Tavern in Chic…

Out Chicago, October 12th, 2025
On this week's show: – Kathy Tholin, chair of the Indivisible Chicago Alliance – Miz Cracker, RuPaul’s Drag Race star, who returns to Chicagoland with an all-new Halloween spectacular, Crack-O-Lantern: Things that Scare Me, 10/25 – Eileen Dixon, director/co-adapter of Redtwist Theatre’s “Chicago: Q…

Out Chicago, October 5, 2025
On this week's show: – Madison Alderperson Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford, 2026 candidate for Wisconsin Assembly – Jessica Esquivel, Ph.D., co-founder of Oyanova Enterprises – Sasha Velour, gender-fluid drag queen and visual artist – Alison Gash, professor of political science at the University of O…

Out Chicago September 28 2025
On this week's show: – John Parker and Jim Pounds, co-hosts of "The Gaily Show" on WCPT 820 – JJ Niemann, star of "Catch Me If You Can," playing at the Marriott Theatre through October 19 – Jen Kober, actor and comedian; she plays Zanies Rosemont October 1 Catch “Out Chicago” Sundays from 11:00 a…

Out Chicago September 14 2025
On this week's show: – “Gangsta Baby” playwright and actor Cameron Rasdaal-Monro and director Rikki Beadle-Blair. Open Space Arts is presenting the American premiere of the London hit September 19-October 5. – Jeffrey McHale, director of “It’s Dorothy,” playing Sunday, September 21, as the Document…

Out Chicago September 07 2025
Scott Duff is joined by guest co-host Ken Mejia-Beal and their guests are: – Ceramic artists and community organizers Lesley Bevan and Susan McBride; they talk about Pots to the People: Seconds for the First Amendment, happening Saturday, September 13th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Countess Luann…