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Jacqueline Guillén, Ariana Burks and Carmen Berkeley in "Dead Girl’s Quinceañera" at the Goodman Theatre. (Justin Barbin)

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

By Chris Jones

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

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

The actor John C. Reilly is returning to Steppenwolf Theatre for a second engagement of his show, “Mister Romantic.” (Bobbi Rich)

Chicago Theater Report: John C. Reilly is back in Chicago, Baby heads to Broadway and how to get into the Uptown Theatre

By Chris Jones

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

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

Martin "Tre" Dumas III and Bril Barrett of M.A.D.D. Rythms at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Chicago on Aug. 6, 2026. (Kevin Serna/for Chicago Magazine)

Review: M.A.D.D. Rhythms hoofers from past and present shine, despite technical challenges

By Lauren Warnecke

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...

"Guys & Dolls" in a recent production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington. Casting for the Lyric summer musical has yet to be announced. (Teresa Castracane)

Lyric Opera 2026-27 season has 7 operas, longer runs and the return of the summer musical

By Chris Jones

April 9, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

The coming season will be an expansion for the Lyric, opening next October with Mozart’s...

FILE – Pink accepts the Icon award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Pink to host the 2026 Tony Awards on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall

By Mark Kennedy

April 9, 2026 at 12:11 p.m.

The Tony Awards have turned to a singer with a reputation for a high-energy, physical...

DeVaughn Asante Loman (left) as Baron and Jordan Lane Shappell as Asaf in "The Ally" by Theater Wit. (Charles Osgood)

Review: ‘The Ally’ at Theater Wit puts some of the most thorny liberal debates on stage

By Chris Jones

April 9, 2026 at 5:30 a.m.

This recent play by Itamar Moses gets its first Chicago production, directed by Jeremy Weschler.

Junior LaBeija (as Gus The Theatre Cat) and Bryson Battle (as Jellylorum) in "Cats: The Jellicle Ball" on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Review: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway has so much love, it gives you hope

By Chris Jones

April 7, 2026 at 8:00 p.m.

“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” loves Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Cats,” even to the point of reverence....

Matt DeCaro, standing at right, with Jabari Khaliq (from left), Al’Jaleel McGhee, Cedric Young and Kelvin Roston Jr. in "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom" at the Goodman Theatre. (Justin Barbin)

Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ at the Goodman finds humor in the struggle to rise

By Chris Jones

April 7, 2026 at 12:13 p.m.

This Goodman production of August Wilson's Chicago-set play about blues music has one truly exceptional...

Glen Tullman, left, and David Rockwell inside The Hand & The Eye, 100 E. Ontario St. in Chicago, on April 3, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Will The Hand & The Eye, Chicago’s new luxe mansion of magic, save the Magnificent Mile?

By Chris Jones

April 7, 2026 at 2:16 p.m.

Founder Glen Tullman's $50 million entertainment venture opens next weekend just off Michigan Avenue, a...

Lauren Patten and Alden Ehrenreich in "Becky Shaw" on Broadway at the Hayes Theater in New York. (Marc J. Franklin)

Review: In ‘Becky Shaw’ on Broadway, the truth can be such a drag

By Chris Jones

April 6, 2026 at 9:00 p.m.

Gina Gionfriddo's dark dating comedy feels well-cast and perfectly timed.

Adrianna Hicks is one of the six stars from the original Broadway production of “Six” who will be performing as part of "Royal Reunion: Celebrating Six Years of ‘Six,’" a benefit to raise money for the Illinois Conservatory for the Arts in Naperville. (Illinois Conservatory for the Arts)

Original Broadway stars from ‘Six’ to raise money for Naperville’s ICA

By Annie Alleman

April 3, 2026 at 4:20 p.m.

Six original stars from the Broadway musical “Six” are doing a concert to benefit Naperville's...

Animal acts may have gone by the wayside, but the Triton Troupers Circus continues the circus tradition of showcasing circus skills such as acrobatics. (Fonso Orozco)

Triton Troupers teachers, performers reflect on changing nature of circus arts

By Myrna Petlicki

April 2, 2026 at 4:14 p.m.

Animal acts have mostly gone away, but the show must go on for the Triton...

Jesse Jones, dance captain for "The Wiz," center, teaches student Alyssea Barnes, left, and principal Ku-San Thomas, right, of the Ray Graham Training Center, choreography from “Ease on Down the Road” on April 1, 2026. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

South Side students get some dance instruction from ‘The Wiz’

By Emily McClanathan

April 2, 2026 at 1:18 p.m.

The students from Ray Graham Training Center had staged their own production of the "Oz"-based...