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Eduardo De Azevedo Grillo, Lucy Tan, Nancy Luna and
Fran Alvarez in "The Attic" at the Goodman Theatre. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: With sadness and joy, Shana Carroll imagines a fallen circus artist in ‘The Attic’ at Goodman Theatre

September 21, 2026 at 5:41 p.m.

“The Attic: Things I’ve Seen While Lying On My Back” is the stunning season-opener at the Goodman Theatre.

Derrick Sanders III and Ernest Bentley in "The Humanities" at Victory Gardens Theater. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: “The Humanities” at Victory Gardens Theater tackles right-wing speakers, campus hypocrisy

September 15, 2026 at 1:46 p.m.

Victory Gardens roared back to life this past weekend with "The Humanities," a provocative, free-thinking and highly entertaining new play from Zayd Ayers Dohrn.

Missy Wise Vanderzee and Kevin Webb in "Sunday in the Park with George," by Kokandy Productions at the Chopin Theatre. (Evan Hanover)

Chicago Theater Report: New Marriott season, ‘Princess Bride’ and wild times in the Loop’s Spiegeltent

September 15, 2026 at 2:04 p.m.

Kokandy Productions announced the cast for "A Clockwork Orange" and Hell in a Handbag’s production of “Joan Crawford Goes to Hell” gets an extension.

Adeline Rosenthal, Asha Dale Hopman and cast in "Leopoldstradt" at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. (Hugo Hentoff)

Winners of the 2026 Equity Jeff Awards include ‘Leopoldstadt,’ ‘Octet’ and Brendan Hunt’s ‘The Movement You Need’

September 15, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

Major acting awards were also won by Al’Jaleel McGhee, Gwendolyn Whiteside, Cody Comb, Allsun O'Malley, Maxel McLoud Schingen and Kelvin Roston Jr.

Janet Ulrich Brooks and María Victoria Martínez in "The Birth of the Pill" at TimeLine Theatre. (Brett Beiner)

Review: ‘The Birth of the Pill’ at TimeLine Theatre has serious issues with the book it is adapting

September 14, 2026 at 12:48 p.m.

Jessica Huang’s “The Birth of the Pill,” is not so much an adaptation of Jonathan Eig’s history of oral contraception as a reckoning with how this Evanston-based Pulitzer Prize winner...

Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller outside the then-PrivateBank Theatre on Monroe Street on Dec 8, 2015, before the opening of "Hamilton" here. His next big project in Chicago is the pre-Broadway tryout of "Princess Bride: The Musical," he told the Tribune in an exclusive. (Phil Velasquez/baiduhai/TNS)

‘Princess Bride’ is becoming a Broadway musical, premiering in Chicago

September 14, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A new Broadway musical version of "The Princess Bride" will premiere in Chicago next summer, lead producer Jeffrey Seller ("Hamilton") told the Tribune on Sunday.

Annalese Starzec (as Frances “Baby” Houseman) and Blake Zelesnikar (Johnny Castle) in "Dirty Dancing: The Musical," in Chicago at the Nederlander Theatre. (Matthew Murphy)

Review: Classy new tour gives ‘Dirty Dancing: The Musical’ quite a lift

September 13, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.

The director Lonny Price has worked a minor miracle with "Dirty Dancing: The Musical." On stage, it's never quite felt this way before.

Midnight Circus member Nate Armour dives through hula hoops held by fellow members at Humboldt Park on Oct. 1, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Chicago Theater Report: Steppenwolf snags a Broadway star, and 20 years of Midnight Circus

September 8, 2026 at 1:00 p.m.

Big anniversaries for Midnight Circus and Arcada Theatre of St. Charles.

Director Sheldon Epps talks to the cast of the musical "Play On!" during a rehearsal at Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier, Aug. 25, 2026. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Sheldon Epps is bringing ‘Play On!’ to Chicago for a jazzy encore

September 6, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

His musical, based on Duke Ellington’s music and Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night," opens soon on Navy Pier, with hopes for Broadway next.

The cast of "Come From Away" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. (Justin Barbin)

Review: Why ‘Come From Away’ at Marriott Theatre is the Dolly Parton of musicals

September 4, 2026 at 11:26 a.m.

This musical, set in Gander, Newfoundland, on and around the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is warm, generous, nonjudgmental and appreciated by all.

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