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Alfredo, Daza, Daniela Mack and company in "El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego" at Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Cory Weaver)

Review: In ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ at Lyric Opera, the painters are part of a rich tapestry

March 22, 2026 at 1:39 p.m.

This Spanish-language opera by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz immerses the figures of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in a wider whole.

The sign on TimeLine Theatre's new home in the Uptown neighborhood was illuminated in a marquee lighting ceremony at 5035 N. Broadway in Chicago on March 19, 2026. (Aubrey Jane)

New TimeLine Theatre marquee illuminates Uptown, at the end of long search for a home

March 20, 2026 at 3:12 p.m.

TimeLine artistic director PJ Powers and executive director Mica Cole led a ceremony to illuminate their new theater in the Uptown neighborhood, a moment decades in the making.

Steve McDonagh as Man in Chair, Trey Plutnicki as Robert Martin and Kevin Chlapecka as George in "The Drowsy Chaperone" by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in Evanston. (Brett Beiner)

Review: Theo’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ has a fabulous narrator to invite us along for the ride

March 18, 2026 at 5:15 a.m.

Rule No. 1 for any production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" is the presence of a great Man in Chair, the empathetic, sad-sack superfan at the center of this very funny...

Hershey Felder in "Rachmaninoff and the Tsar" at Writers Theatre in Glencoe in 2025. (Stefano DeCarli)

Writers Theatre announces 2026-27 season including the return of Hershey Felder

March 17, 2026 at 3:13 p.m.

The upcoming slate in Glencoe also includes a musical adaptation of Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter" and August Strindberg's "Creditors."

Noelle Oh, Reilly Oh and Sunnie Eraso in "White Rooster" by Lookingglass Theatre Company in the Water Tower Water Works. (Justin Barbin)

Review: ‘White Rooster’ at Lookingglass takes a complicated path through death and life

March 16, 2026 at 2:43 p.m.

Matthew C. Yee's world premiere has beautiful moments, but also so many layers that you can feel separated from the characters and where they are going.

Karah Son, Evan LeRoy Johnson and company in "Madama Butterfly" by Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ by Lyric Opera transports Puccini into a virtual world – who is to say what is real?

March 15, 2026 at 1:26 p.m.

This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an effective solution. And audiences still hear every note of Puccini's beloved 1904 score.

"Every Brilliant Thing" on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe at the Hudson Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)

Review: Daniel Radcliffe is the best thing yet for ‘Every Brilliant Thing’

March 12, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

This simple, warm and generous play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe gets a lift on Broadway from some remarkable celebrity casting.

David Byrne in the space to be used for “Theater of the Mind," a walk-through theater experience about music and how our minds hear and perceive it, at the Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building in Chicago, Feb. 3, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

A lifetime of David Byrne’s curiosity comes together for ‘Theater of the Mind’

March 11, 2026 at 1:36 p.m.

The Talking Heads frontman and Broadway performer has created a show in Chicago about music, science and how the two meet in your mind.

The marquee of the Victory Gardens Theater at the Biograph in 2006 in Chicago. (Michael Tercha/baiduhai)

Victory Gardens announces new interim artistic director

March 8, 2026 at 8:43 p.m.

Victory Gardens Theater has hired Edward Torres, the former artistic director of Chicago's Teatro Vista, and has a new show.

Lauren Mariasoosay, Marja Harmon and Lily Soto in the national tour of "Hamilton," now at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago. (Joan Marcus)

Review: ‘Hamilton’ tour is now telling his story for a next generation

March 6, 2026 at 11:47 a.m.

The touring musical about the founding father is back in Chicago at the CIBC Theatre, with a new cast but still in fine form.

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