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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...

Alfredo, Daza, Daniela Mack and company in "El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego" at Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Cory Weaver)

Review: In ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ at Lyric Opera, the painters are part of a rich tapestry

By Chris Jones

March 22, 2026 at 1:38 p.m.

This Spanish-language opera by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz immerses the figures of Diego...

The sign on TimeLine Theatre's new home in the Uptown neighborhood was illuminated in a marquee lighting ceremony at 5035 N. Broadway in Chicago on March 19, 2026. (Aubrey Jane)

New TimeLine Theatre marquee illuminates Uptown, at the end of long search for a home

By Chris Jones

March 20, 2026 at 3:12 p.m.

TimeLine artistic director PJ Powers and executive director Mica Cole led a ceremony to illuminate...

Rendering of the new home for Northlight Theatre at 1012 Church St. in Evanston. (Eckenhoff Saunders)

Drama is mounting as Northlight theater construction progresses in downtown Evanston

By Myrna Petlicki

March 20, 2026 at 9:15 a.m.

Construction of Northlight's theater building in downtown Evanston is about 82% completed; tours start in...

"El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego" in a previous production by the San Francisco Opera. It opens in Chicago at the Lyric Opera. (Cory Weaver)

Lyric Opera’s ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ goes beyond Fridamania

By Hannah Edgar

March 20, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

Kahlo arrives on the Lyric mainstage this month when the company presents “El último sueño...

Comedian Maggie Winters, center, mingles with friends while she and her family host their annual party after the South Side Irish St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 15, 2026, in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Maggie Winters invited us to her St. Patrick’s Day party in Beverly, where her comedy was born

By Ryan P. C. Trimble

March 20, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

"Marguerite" is now available for streaming. The Tribune caught up with her at her family's...

Comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington play blinkered versions of themselves on their ongoing series "On Cinema at the Cinema." (HEI Network)

Siskel & Ebert & Tim & Gregg: The existential glory of ‘On Cinema’ comes to Thalia Hall

By Christopher Borrelli

March 19, 2026 at 5:45 a.m.

Comedians Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington have a show about film criticism and the comparisons...

Steve McDonagh as Man in Chair, Trey Plutnicki as Robert Martin and Kevin Chlapecka as George in "The Drowsy Chaperone" by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in Evanston. (Brett Beiner)

Review: Theo’s ‘Drowsy Chaperone’ has a fabulous narrator to invite us along for the ride

By Chris Jones

March 18, 2026 at 5:15 a.m.

Rule No. 1 for any production of "The Drowsy Chaperone" is the presence of a...

Hershey Felder in "Rachmaninoff and the Tsar" at Writers Theatre in Glencoe in 2025. (Stefano DeCarli)

Writers Theatre announces 2026-27 season including the return of Hershey Felder

By Chris Jones

March 17, 2026 at 3:13 p.m.

The upcoming slate in Glencoe also includes a musical adaptation of Noël Coward's "Brief Encounter"...

Noelle Oh, Reilly Oh and Sunnie Eraso in "White Rooster" by Lookingglass Theatre Company in the Water Tower Water Works. (Justin Barbin)

Review: ‘White Rooster’ at Lookingglass takes a complicated path through death and life

By Chris Jones

March 16, 2026 at 2:43 p.m.

Matthew C. Yee's world premiere has beautiful moments, but also so many layers that you...

Karah Son, Evan LeRoy Johnson and company in "Madama Butterfly" by Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ by Lyric Opera transports Puccini into a virtual world – who is to say what is real?

By Chris Jones

March 15, 2026 at 1:26 p.m.

This is a difficult opera to stage now, and director Matthew Ozawa has found an...