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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...

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...

"The Sleeping Beauty" with Joffrey Ballet dancer Gayeon Jung. (Carolyn McCabe)

Joffrey Ballet’s next season includes ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘Liliom’ and a love letter to Chicago

By Lauren Warnecke

March 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.

“Liliom” choreographer John Neumeier adapts the same play that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel.” The...

Mia (Kristin E. Ellis) and Miss Candice (Leslie Ann Sheppard) in Shattered Globe Theatre's "Morning, Noon, and Night" at Theater Wit. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘Morning, Noon, and Night’ taps into anxieties born of the COVID era

By Chris Jones

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

Kirsten Greenidge's domestic comedy centers on a family during the pandemic who is visited by...