Sunday, July 26, 2015
RECOMMENDED Watching Tennessee Williams’ classic portrayal of lust and longing in New Orleans under the Wisconsin stars, on an especially hot and humid night, adds an extra element of auth…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
RECOMMENDED Paramount Theatre certainly knows its way around big Broadway musicals. From “Cats” to “Miss Saigon” to “Fiddler on the Roof,” their Broadway Series has consistentl…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
RECOMMENDED The title of Kate Walbert’s “Genius”—now receiving its world premiere at the Profiles Theatre—refers to the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants—the prospect …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:45PMBursting with imagination, bereft of dynamic narrative, this retelling of the Joan of Arc story is a dazzling mess of a play, more first draft than finished work. Playwright Robert Stewart n…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:41PMMonday, March 16, 2015
RECOMMENDED Last Wednesday night I found myself in a first-floor apartment on the far North Side of Chicago, standing in front of a sofa conversing with a young playwright talking about her …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:53PMRECOMMENDED Any short-play festival will have a number of mediocre plays, a couple of stellar works, and one or two duds. In the case of “Today We Escape,” a twelve-play presentation bas…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:14PMRECOMMENDED They say nothing cures working-class misogyny, homophobia and general bigotry like a little strip tease. As it stands, those who attend Kokandy Productions’ mounting of “…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:13PMSaturday, March 14, 2015
RECOMMENDED After a one-year production hiatus, Chicago Dramatists returns with a compelling and important world premiere penned by Rohina Malik, “The Mecca Tales.” Four American Muslim …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:48PMOpening night for pre-Broadway shows in Chicago can be fun. The excitement both real (will this be the next “The Producers” or “Kinky Boots”?) and manufactured (red carpets, Klieg li…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:30PMThursday, March 12, 2015
RECOMMENDED A good alternative title for “finding gräfenberg” might be “man, it sucks to be a woman.” Apart from the ubiquitous extra-narrative evidence (see: advertising in general…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:56PMThursday, March 5, 2015
By Hugh Iglarsh Two great experiments mark the mid-century history of the University of Chicago. The one everybody knows about was the first sustained nuclear reaction, which occurred in a c…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:42AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Check out what audiences are saying about Steppenwolf’s production of Marie Antoinette, written by David Adjmi and directed by Robert O’Hara. The play features ensemble members A…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:20PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Check out our trailer for Steppenwolf for Young Adults’ production of THIS IS MODERN ART. The play is written by acclaimed playwright Idris Goodwin and Louder than a Bomb founder Kevin…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
AIRLINE HIGHWAY’S playwright Lisa D’amour introduces her long-time friend and poet Danny Kerwick. Danny is the inspiration for the Character Francis, played by Gordon Joseph Weis…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:22AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
We had so much fun at the photoshoot for MARIE ANTOINETTE, we decided to make a video to share! Check out the fine work of photographer Saverio Truglia with ensemble member Alana Arenas posi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:38PMMonday, January 26, 2015
At one point in the first act, twenty-one-year-old Avery Willard (played with comic bravado and youthful vulnerability by Cassidy Slaughter-Mason) explains her lack of interest in “First-w…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PMThursday, January 22, 2015
By Brian Hieggelke Last October, Steppenwolf surprised the theater world by announcing a double-barreled transition in leadership: long-term artistic director Martha Lavey would give …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:08AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Check out RED. A membership for people in their 20s, RED is a totally flexible way to see mind-blowing theater at Steppenwolf. For just $100, the RED card gives you six tickets to use for an…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:19AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Steppenwolf’s AIRLINE HIGHWAY brings a party worth talking about to the stage. Set in New Orleans, this new world premiere production is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts who mak…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:53PMMonday, December 29, 2014
Steppenwolf’s AIRLINE HIGHWAY brings a party worth talking about to the stage. Set in New Orleans, this new world premiere production is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts who mak…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:30AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
Top 5 Plays of 2014 “Smokefall,” Goodman Theatre “Newsies,” Broadway In Chicago “The Midnight City,” Firecat Projects at Steppenwolf Garage “Hedda Gabler,” Writers Theatre �…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:03AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Steppenwolf’s AIRLINE HIGHWAY brings a party worth talking about to the stage. Set in New Orleans, this new world premiere production is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts who mak…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:30AMMonday, November 24, 2014
RECOMMENDED Goodman Theatre has perfected the holiday show in its annual production of “A Christmas Carol,” with superb, consciously colorblind casting, terrific scenic design by Todd Ro…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:30PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Who has time to read websites anymore? All the cool kids in town are too busy reading print magazines (or are we mistaken here?). Luckily you can find us on the same social platforms that ev…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:00AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
RECOMMENDED As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago decades ago, a friend suggested I take a class called “The Political Plays and Prefaces of George Bernard Shaw” becau…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Paragraph One. Playwright Lucas Hnath’s having a Chicago moment, with his “Isaac’s Eye” in simultaneous production at Writers Theatre this fall. “Death Tax̶…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMFriday, September 12, 2014
By Loy Webb There is a contagious energy that fills the room upon meeting Definition Theatre Company (DTC). One look at their bright hopeful eyes, erect self-confident posture, and fiery pas…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:28AMTuesday, September 9, 2014
They say the clothes make the man, and so I think can a space make the theater company. For years, Red Tape Theatre was safely ensconced in a cavernous and decrepit old gymnasium attached to…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:30PMMonday, September 8, 2014
RECOMMENDED “An armed society is a polite society,” goes the old NRA slogan. Perhaps, but it’s also an insane society, as demonstrated by Nick Jones’ play “The Coward,” receiving…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AMFriday, September 5, 2014
RECOMMENDED “She was ruthless. She was evil. She was a theater critic, for God’s sake!” Delivered in the baritonal vocal stylings of Chicago’s own national treasure Alene Robertson, …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:30PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Which graduate of our public school system hasn’t read the CliffsNotes for Melville’s “Moby Dick,” along with Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” and “Beowulf?” With “The …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM 
