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Jonathan Lee-Rey, executive artistic director of Asian American comedy troupe Stir Friday Night, center, and the audience watch Tony Castro perform stand up comedy during a showcase called hAAPI hour, a play on happy hour and Asian American/Pacific Islander, at HAIBAYÔ, 1132 W. Argyle St., on Oct. 23, 2026, in Chicago. The team will be performing during iO's 45th anniversary festival, IO45. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Improv teams old and new celebrate 45 years of iO Theater

By Ryan P. C. Trimble

October 30, 2026 at 8:03 a.m.

iO Theater, Chicago's home for longform improv, is turning 45 this year and throwing a...

The cast of "A Few Good Men" at the conclusion of a preview performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in the Lincoln Center for the Arts in New York. (Emilio Madrid)

Review: Potent ‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway needs a lawyer we can believe in

By Chris Jones

October 29, 2026 at 10:00 p.m.

"You can't handle the truth" is writer Aaron's Sorkin's most famous line in his play...

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020 file photo, Patrick Stewart attends the LA Premiere of "Star Trek: Picard," in Los Angeles. The award-winning actor best known as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard of "Star Trek" has a deal with Gallery Books for a "revealing and heartwarming look" into his life and times, the publisher announced Tuesday, June 30. A title and release date will be determined later. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86

By Mark Kennedy

October 29, 2026 at 3:15 p.m.

Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas...

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...

Avery Willis Hoffman is the new artistic director of Court Theatre on the campus of the University of Chicago. (Provided by Court Theatre)

Court Theatre announces 2026-27 season in Hyde Park, opening with ‘Tituba’ in Rockefeller Chapel

By Chris Jones

April 2, 2026 at 10:59 a.m.

Renovations at the theater will delay the start of the season, which will include four...

Artist-in-residence Brendan Fernandes in the Murphy Auditorium at the Driehaus Museum, March 17, 2026, in Chicago. (Vincent D. Johnson/for the baiduhai)

‘Brendan Fernandes: In the Round’ at Driehaus Museum thinks outside the gilded box

By Lauren Warnecke

April 1, 2026 at 11:02 a.m.

“In the Round” is part of the Driehaus Museum’s “A Tale of Today” series, which...