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Letonia Copeland-Hardin, who performs under the name LT, adjusts her collar while working on material in the green room before her set at The Lincoln Lodge in Chicago, Sept. 26, 2026. (Nate Swanson/for the baiduhai)

Funny you should ask: Chicago scientist says humor makes for better researchers

By Ryan P. C. Trimble

October 12, 2026 at 5:30 a.m.

Letonia Copeland-Hardin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago and also a stand-up...

The company of "Don Giovanni" by Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Cory Weaver)

Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at Lyric Opera delivers a blast of Robert Falls’ operatic past

By Chris Jones

October 12, 2026 at 10:08 a.m.

Director Robert Falls' signature maximalism is still with us, I am happy to report, even...

Layke Fowler and Marssie Mencotti in "4000 Miles" by A Short Leap Theatre at the Den Theatre. (Alex Albrecht)

Review: Never flashy, ‘4000 Miles’ by A Short Leap Theatre lets the humanity come through

By Emily McClanathan

October 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

In Amy Herzog’s 2011 play, a troubled 21-year-old man shows up at his grandmother’s Manhattan...

Lyric Opera music director Enrique Mazzola, left, and John Mangum, the general director, president and CEO, greet Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins on March 11, 2025, as they announce their upcoming season. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Lyric Opera’s 2025-26 season includes ‘Madama Butterfly’ and Billy Corgan revisiting ‘Mellon Collie’

By Chris Jones

March 11, 2025 at 2:48 p.m.

Next fall will open with "Medea" and include a world premiere based on the Smashing...

Looking out of the front windows of the Museum of Contemporary Art, decorated for an exhibit in 2017, toward Michigan Avenue. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

With a major new donation, the MCA will ramp up live performance in its theater

By Chris Jones

May 22, 2026 at 7:48 p.m.

Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art...

Author Eve Ewing at the Museum of Science and Industry on July 12, 2021. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Chicago Humanities Spring Festival boasts Leslie Odom Jr., Eve Ewing and Paul Reiser — because culture isn’t dead yet

By Christopher Borrelli

May 22, 2026 at 7:48 p.m.

Chicago Humanities Spring Festival has always been a festival of ideas, never more appreciated than...

Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Taylor Iman Jones, Jason Tam and Andy Mientus in "The Jonathan Larson Project," running off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in New York. (Joan Marcus)

Review: ‘Jonathan Larson Project’ is an off-Broadway chance to hear lost songs of the ‘Rent’ composer

By Chris Jones

March 10, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.

Now playing in an East Village theater in New York, this musical revue lets fans...

Actress Ruslana Ostapko, wearing a painted moustache, cries as the talks about her male colleagues who joined the Ukrainian army and were killed in Russia-Ukraine war, in the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast

By ILLIA NOVIKOV

March 9, 2025 at 10:14 a.m.

The efforts of the theater in Chernihiv, the capital of a region that borders Russia...

The Biograph Theatre in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on March 17, 2023. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Victory Gardens Theater will reopen with a new David Mamet play and starry cast

By Chris Jones

March 6, 2025 at 4:37 p.m.

The Mamet play "Henry Johnson" will be directed by Eddie Torres, starring Keith Kupferer and...

Court Theatre on the campus of the University of Chicago in 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Court Theatre’s 2025-26 season: ‘Miss Julie,’ an inside-out ‘Shrew’ and a world-premiere musical

By Doug George

March 4, 2025 at 3:58 p.m.

The theater on Tuesday announced its 71st season, with four titles in all, opening next...

Lucas Demarchi in a production of "Hamlet" by Teatro La Plaza of Peru, in which young performers with Down syndrome blend Shakespeare's text with anecdotes from their lives, staged in Chicago at Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Upstairs Studio. (Provided by Teatro La Plaza)

In Teatro La Plaza’s ‘Hamlet,’ a cast with Down syndrome gives the Danish prince a whole new life

By Emily McClanathan

March 4, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater hosts the North American debut of a production that has been celebrated...

Classic Cinemas CEO Chris Johnson prepares to screen a documentary about the La Grange Theatre on Feb. 26 during a 100th anniversary celebration for the venerable moviehouse in La Grange. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange Theatre kicks off ongoing celebration of 100th anniversary

By Hank Beckman

March 3, 2025 at 12:52 p.m.

Classic Cinemas La Grange Theatre will screen iconic movies from its 10 decades throughout the...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs "Revelations." (Paul Kolnik)

Alvin Ailey returns to the Auditorium as the company enters a new era and a dancer says farewell

By Lauren Warnecke

March 3, 2025 at 2:33 p.m.

It's the dawn of a new era for Ailey, which returns to the Auditorium Theatre...