“Another Marriage,” a play by Steppenwolf ensemble member Kate Arrington, takes on the reality of how both the birth of a child and unequal career success can affect a relationship.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWritten by John Pielmeier in 1979, the play is about a young nun named Agnes found bleeding and unconscious in her convent bedroom. The audience gets the full, hurricane blast of this perfor…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhen a terrific singing actress is in the role of Rose, you can’t take your eyes from her, and you can’t help but sympathize.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt is in sleep that everything happens, and an office drone becomes a hero and a warrior. His quest is figuring out how to bring his dream life into his real one.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis is true, exciting storefront theater, set in a literal, narrow storefront on 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood. It’s challenging, passionate, and beautifully in your face.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor the last play he programmed as Goodman’s artistic director, Falls chose a masterpiece about change and endings—Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMOne of William Shakespeare’s earliest plays, “The Comedy of Errors” is sublimely ridiculous.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThere are lies told for art and lies told for power. In art, a lie (known as a story), can show what’s true. In politics, lies oppress. This play reveals hard truths about fascism’s dest…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFighting a revolution looks like glorious fun from the outside. On the inside, you see friends die and family members suffer.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Fen,” a revival of a 1983 Caryl Churchhill play, is about women in the rural lowlands of England. But the distant setting in a somewhat distant time doesn’t matter, because the confli…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Villette” is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte’s final novel.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn Lucas Hnath’s play “The Christians,” the popular pastor of a megachurch tries something truly difficult.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLookingglass Theatre’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” which first opened to glowing reviews in 2018, has become a Chicago holiday theater tradition, along with “The Christmas Carol” …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster,” said novelist Christopher Buckley. “And I’ve tried.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMEmily Means Wills has a unique place in Chicago theater. She helps audience members who are blind, or have low vision, experience live theater by describing what’s happening on the stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat better way to explore the poisonous effects of repression than by making the respectable Jekyll female, with a malignant male Hyde acting out Jekyll’s hidden desires?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMKosky did not want a safe “Fiddler.” Kosky wanted the big chorus and full orchestra that can only be provided in an opera house. “It’s a shtetl. It’s a world,” Kosky explains. �…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBabes with Blades Theatre Co., known for its use of stage combat and the casting of women in male roles, explores disability culture and “othering” in its new production of “Richard II…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat a delight it is to sit on the grass and watch this talented, diverse troupe of actors perform one of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible comedies.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Lookingglass Alice” reveals the beauty in change and unexpected lessons, while acknowledging their pain.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA portrait of a fifteenth-century serial killer that you can both hate and secretly cheer for.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWritten in 1888, the play centers on Ellida, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper who grew up near the open sea.
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