Tom Williams The 58th Equity Jeff Award nominations cover the July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026 Equity season. Nominees will be honored at a ceremony on Monday, September 14, 2026, at the Harris Theater. See the full list of 58th Equity Jeff Awards winners, our Jeff Awards guide, and the official nominees at jeffawards.org/equity-nominees. For an earlier season, … Read more
From Chicago and New York to Baltimore, Kansas City, Paris and beyond, explore memorable Broadway and musical-theatre songs inspired by cities and places.
Updated for the 2026 holiday season. Looking for more seasonal performances? See our Chicago Holiday Shows & Musicals guide for Christmas theatre, family shows and other holiday productions around Chicago. Chicago and the surrounding suburbs offer a wide range of Nutcracker performances each holiday season, from major professional productions to shorter family versions, community traditions … Read more
Here are the nominations made in 38 categories for The 55th Annual Equity Jeff Awards. The Jeff Awards will take place Monday, October 2, 2023, at Drury Lane in Oakbrook, IL. The most recent season was from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. For the current season, see the 58th Equity Jeff Awards nominees. … Read more
The Joseph Jefferson Awards, commonly known as the Jeff Awards, recognize excellence in Chicago-area theatre. Established in 1968, the awards evaluate eligible professional productions through separate Equity and Non-Equity programs and recognize achievements by productions, performers, directors, designers and other theatre artists. This page is an evergreen guide to how the Jeff Awards work. For … Read more
Chicago’s downtown theatre scene is concentrated in and around the Loop, where historic venues host Broadway tours, pre-Broadway engagements, concerts, comedy, dance, opera and other major productions. Broadway In Chicago operates several of the best-known downtown houses, while venues such as the Chicago Theatre and Lyric Opera House add to the area’s broader performing-arts landscape. … Read more
Updated for the 2026 holiday season. Chicago has appeared in a surprising number of Christmas movies, but there is an important distinction: some films are genuinely set and filmed in Chicagoland, while others only use Chicago as the story setting and were actually shot somewhere else. This guide focuses on that difference. Below you’ll find … Read more
Updated for 2026–27. Originally published October 15, 2022. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is a nonprofit professional organization for film critics whose work has a Chicago presence. Its members work across print, online, broadcast and other media, and the association oversees the annual Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, the Chicago Critics Film Festival, critic … Read more
Most Chicago theatres do not have a formal dress code. Casual clothes are generally fine, including jeans and clean sneakers. Some people dress up more for downtown Broadway productions, opening nights, special events or a dinner-and-theatre date, but formalwear is rarely necessary unless the event specifically requests it. The best approach is to dress for … Read more
Theater and theatre generally mean the same thing. Theater is the standard spelling in American English, while theatre is preferred in British English and many other varieties of English. In the United States, however, many performing-arts organizations and venues intentionally use theatre in their official names. So which should you use? For ordinary American writing, … Read more