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Magician Derek Hughes, here at a Tribeca Festival event in New York in 2023, has a short guest run at The Magic Parlour in Chicago. (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)

Review: Derek Hughes has a magical touch with his audience at The Magic Parlour

March 5, 2026 at 12:58 p.m.

Time and again, when I saw his show on Sunday, the slightly off-beat Derek Hughes not only put people at ease but involved them in his unfolding narrative.

A design rendering of TimeLine Theatre’s new theater building, to be located at 5035 N. Broadway in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. (HGA)

TimeLine Theatre announces first season in its new home

March 5, 2026 at 12:19 p.m.

The four shows for the 2026-27 season open with a world premiere based on the book "The Birth of the Pill" by Chicago writer Jonathan Eig and conclude with a...

Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller outside the then-PrivateBank Theatre on Monroe Street in the Loop on Dec 8, 2015. He announced that "Hamilton" would come there for its first production outside of New York. The PrivateBank Theatre is now the CIBC Theatre, where "Hamilton" has returned for spring 2026. (Phil Velasquez / baiduhai)

Jeffrey Seller on how ‘Hamilton’ is now an antidote — and why he walked away from Washington

March 6, 2026 at 3:45 p.m.

Producer Jeffrey Seller said the decision to pull out of a planned engagement at the Kennedy Center was easy, but he was happy that Chicago provided a place to land.

Co-artistic directors Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis at Steppenwolf Theatre's campus on Halsted Street in Oct. 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans / baiduhai)

Steppenwolf Theatre’s 2026-27 season will have several world premieres

March 4, 2026 at 11:50 a.m.

Coming next on Halsted Street: New work from Adam Rapp and Stephanie Alison Walker, both writers with ties to Chicago, and the return of both the director Tina Landau and...

Lenin Izquierdo and Jalbelly Guzmán in "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" at the Goodman's Owen Theatre. (Jay Towns)

Review: ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ is about a nerdy young man with an open heart

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

This world-premiere adaptation of the novel by Junot Díaz stars Lenin Izquierdo of Humboldt Park as the Dominican American hero at the center of the story.

Mia (Kristin E. Ellis) and Miss Candice (Leslie Ann Sheppard) in Shattered Globe Theatre's "Morning, Noon, and Night" at Theater Wit. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘Morning, Noon, and Night’ taps into anxieties born of the COVID era

March 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Kirsten Greenidge's domestic comedy centers on a family during the pandemic who is visited by a kind of Mary Poppins figure.

Actor Nick Offerman prepares to throw the ceremonial first pitch before the Chicago Cubs game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field on Aug. 17, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Nick Offerman will star in Goodman Theatre show; Teri Hatcher coming to Chicago Shakespeare

March 2, 2026 at 11:36 a.m.

Nick Offerman will star in the musical "Iceboy!" at the Goodman. Separately, Teri Hatcher will star in the comedy "Fault" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

The cast of "The Shape of the Bones" by The New Theatre Project at Theater Wit. (George Hudson)

Review: Devastating ‘Shape of the Bones’ has us in its grip from the first moment

March 2, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

New Theatre Project is staging the first U.S. production of Spencer Huffman's play about a community under the thrall of a pastor, here with a top-flight Chicago cast.

John R. Lazzara, here in the lobby of the Drury Lane-Martinique in Evergreen Park on Sept. 15, 2000. Some of his recent improvements to the theater include adding a wedding chapel and a gazebo out front. (Gerald West/baiduhai)

Column: At the Drury Lane-Martinique in Evergreen Park, John R. Lazzara owned the spotlight

February 25, 2026 at 12:16 p.m.

The larger-than-life theater owner died recently at the age of 76. Though he came into show business without much experience, he had a gift for understanding his customers.

Ashley Neal, Tara Mallen and Keith Kupferer in "Pivot" at Rivendell Theatre. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘Pivot’ at Rivendell Theatre boasts an experienced cast in a dark Midwestern comedy

February 24, 2026 at 2:03 p.m.

Keith Kupferer and Tara Mallen co-star in a new dark comedy about a young couple in Nebraska.

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