The Broadway musical “Hamilton” will return to Chicago in 2026, the producer Jeffrey Seller announced Sunday at a Chicago Humanities Festival event. The first national touring company of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash hit will play the CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) from March 4 to April 26, 2026. Group tickets are now available; individual tickets will go on sale later this year, presenter Broadway in Chicago said.
Those dates roughly coincide with the previously planned dates for the show to play the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Seller had announced the cancellation of those dates after President Donald Trump announced plans to install himself as Kennedy Center chairman and change the arts center’s programming to be more in line with his administration’s priorities.
Beginning in 2016 and concluding in 2020, “Hamilton” had a dedicated, 171-week run in Chicago, the first city to present the show after its Broadway opening. The Chicago company played to more than 2.5 million people and grossed more than $400 million at the Chicago box office over three and a half years. It was an economic driver in the Loop, with more than half of its audience coming from more than 100 miles away.
A touring production of the musical came back in 2023 for a fall run at the Nederlander Theatre. This new engagement will represent a promised return.
Seller was in Chicago for an event at the Francis Parker School to talk about his new memoir, “Theater Kid.”
Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.
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