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Harry Lennix, Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and Jon Michael Hill in "Purpose" at Steppenwolf Theatre. (Michael Brosilow)

Steppenwolf Theatre play ‘Purpose’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama

May 5, 2025 at 4:41 p.m.

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' work was commissioned by Steppenwolf, debuted in Chicago and is now on Broadway.

Dancers Paolo Randon and Victoria Jaiani of the Joffrey Ballet. (Todd Rosenberg)

Dance for Life announces lineup for 2025, its biggest in decades

May 2, 2025 at 10:49 a.m.

The fundraiser has announced the Chicago-area dance companies participating in this year's event at the Auditorium Theatre.

Owner Mike Reed at his club Constellation on May 4, 2020, in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)

Constellation announces new Sound & Gravity festival of jazz and avant-garde

April 30, 2025 at 6:20 p.m.

Created by Mike Reed, the lineup includes Bill Callahan, Mdou Moctar, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, Tarbaby and Third Coast Percussion.

Matt Skiba leads Alkaline Trio at Riot Fest in Chicago's Douglass Park in 2022. The band is slated to play its album "Maybe I’ll Catch Fire" at the 2025 festival. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

Riot Fest announces 20 bands will play full album sets for 2025

April 24, 2025 at 10:47 a.m.

Twenty bands will play full album sets for Riot Fest's 20th anniversary this summer, the music festival announced Thursday. The full list includes: Weezer: “The Blue Album” Sex Pistols: “Never Mind The...

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Aug. 13, 2024. (Tess Crowley/Chicago Tribune)

Riot Fest 2025: Green Day, Blink-182 and Weird Al Yankovic, plus a new deal to stay in Douglass Park

April 23, 2025 at 1:01 p.m.

Riot Fest headliners for 2025 will be Blink-182 on Friday, Weezer and Jack White on Saturday and Green Day on Sunday, along with sets by the Sex Pistols and The...

Mavis Staples performs during her 85th Hometown Birthday Celebration at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on Dec. 6, 2024. (Troy Stolt / for the Chicago Tribune)

Mavis Staples will headline Chicago Blues Fest 2025

April 16, 2025 at 12:08 p.m.

The Grammy-winning singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples will headline the final night of this summer's Blues Fest, according to an announcement Wednesday by the Chicago Department of Cultural...

Charli XCX se presenta durante Lollapalooza en Grant Park en 2017 (de izquierda a derecha), Angus Young lidera a AC/DC en Wrigley Field en 2015 y Lil Baby se presenta en Lollapalooza en 2022. (Alexandra Wimley, Chris Sweda y Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

100 conciertos para el verano de Chicago 2025

April 15, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.

El panorama de la música en vivo ya está más o menos definido para el verano de 2025. ¿Qué se viene?

Trinity Irish Dance Company associate artistic director and dancer Chelsea Hoy at a rehearsal at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 2022.

Auditorium’s 2025-26 dance season includes Ensemble Español and Trinity Irish Dance

April 8, 2025 at 11:59 a.m.

The five performances, all by female-led dance companies, conclude next spring with the annual visit by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

An attendee poses for a photograph at Miche Fest at Oakwood Beach in Chicago on July 13, 2024. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)

Miche Fest 2025: Grupo Firme, Danny Ocean and Netón Vega

April 1, 2025 at 7:49 p.m.

The two-day festival of Latin music will take place July 19-20 at Oakwood Beach.

Yoko Ono's installation "Add Color (Refugee Boat)" here at MAXXI Foundation in Rome in 2016. (Musacchio, Ianniello and Pasqualini / Provided by the MCA)

Yoko Ono exhibition is coming to the MCA — with Chicago as its only US destination

March 31, 2025 at 2:11 p.m.

The exhibition will open here next fall, coming to Chicago from the Tate Modern in London, where it reportedly set attendance records.

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