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Review: ‘Dead Girl’s Quinceañera’ at Goodman Theatre turns an apparent abduction into a teenage caper

October 6, 2026 at 2:57 p.m.

Phanésia Pharel's new play has a lively cast of adults playing teenagers, and is not...

October 6, 2026 at 1:46 p.m.

The national tour of “Dirty Dancing” in Chicago last month turned out to be a...

October 7, 2026 at 2:24 p.m.

M.A.D.D. Rhythms co-founders Bril Barrett and Martin “Tre” Dumas III performed some of the finest...

October 2, 2026 at 2:08 p.m.

Heidi Schreck’s 2017 play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, gets authentic surroundings in this new production...

October 1, 2026 at 4:05 p.m.

The British comedy troupe SpitLip took a real World War II caper and made it...

September 30, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

The new theater of Chicago's Far North Side is being built inside a former Christian...

September 29, 2026 at 1:04 p.m.

Also in theater news this week, Albany Park Theater Project will host a final season...

September 29, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The theater announced Tuesday that David Catlin and Ericka Ratcliff will be its new co-artistic...

September 28, 2026 at 8:30 p.m.

"School Girls" is a cumbersomely titled moral comedy from Jocelyn Bioh that the director Whitney...

September 28, 2026 at 2:20 p.m.

Director Kenny Leon has essentially brought his Broadway staging of Suzan-Lori Parks' "Topdog/Underdog" to Chicago,...