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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...

From left: Judge Anthony C. Kyriakopoulos, attorney Tinos Diamantatos, judge Megan Goldish and the onstage jury at the National Hellenic Museum’s "Trial of Themistocles" at Harris Theater in April 2025. (Elios Photography/The National Hellenic Museum)

Was Odysseus a criminal? A mock trial will determine his fate.

By Nina Metz

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

The National Hellenic Museum's mock trial series brings ancient history and myth to life in...

Neysha Mendoza Castro, Andrea San Miguel and Adam Poss in "Two Sisters and a Piano" at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: In ‘Two Sisters and a Piano’ at Writers Theatre, siblings live under house arrest in Cuba

By Emily McClanathan

March 9, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

This sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes frustrating play by Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz is set in...

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

Victory Gardens announces new interim artistic director

By Chris Jones

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

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

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

By Chris Jones

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

The touring musical about the founding father is back in Chicago at the CIBC Theatre,...

Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson at the curtain call for "Hamilton's" opening night at the Public Theater in 2015 in New York.

‘Hamilton’ timeline: From Miranda’s ‘joke’ to Broadway smash to a return to Chicago

By Doug George

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

Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the first U.S. treasury secretary began as an oddball idea, and...

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

By Chris Jones

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

Time and again, when I saw his show on Sunday, the slightly off-beat Derek Hughes...

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

By Chris Jones

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

The four shows for the 2026-27 season open with a world premiere based on the...

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

By Chris Jones

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

Producer Jeffrey Seller said the decision to pull out of a planned engagement at the...

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

By Chris Jones

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

Coming next on Halsted Street: New work from Adam Rapp and Stephanie Alison Walker, both...

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

By Chris Jones

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

This world-premiere adaptation of the novel by Junot Díaz stars Lenin Izquierdo of Humboldt Park...