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When I read Molly Smith Metzler’s now award-winning Cry It Out in 2018, I knew it was something special. I am still not a parent myself nor (at that point) were any of my closest friends. …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
“Gone with the Wind”'s Hattie McDaniel’s artistry and life were complicated, much like history. That’s why TimeLine’s production suits them so well. We get to imagine what things w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
A murder trial transcript that went missing, not to be found until 2004—decades after the murder of Emmett Till. The Black Chicago teen whose unfathomable death in 1955 sparked the Civil R…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:04PMThursday, February 2, 2023
This is an inventive and gorgeous retelling of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Brent Askari places Warhol just ahead of the revolution in Iran (then Tehran) in the 1970s to get Polaroids of the Shah’s wife for a portrait commission.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 27, 2023
Michael Gene Sullivan’s new play is a lively reminder that those who came before are not just names to memorize in grade school. Their legacies, infamous or not, follow us in ways seen and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
You will be dazzled by the shimmering costumes a la Bill Morey, the incredible talent of the ensemble and enamored by Angela Weber Miller’s multifaceted set.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Now the new executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres, Ford’s love of the theater shines on in a unique way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 19, 2022
Manual Cinema’s amalgamation of puppetry, mixed between shadow and light, is the perfect homage to this beloved Victorian ghost story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 15, 2022
During the holiday season there are traditions all over the world. I hope that Strawdog’s Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins maintains its place as a Chicago seasonal perennial. Now in its f…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMFriday, December 2, 2022
Equal parts imaginative holiday magic, Dickensian gothic style, and honest-to-goodness humanity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Int. messy Chicago apartment, unseasonably hot end of November. Being a theater critic can be so isolating when you don’t fit the story being told. Most of the time, I […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:13PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
The show is everything you’d imagine for a staged version of Buddy the Elf’s coming-of-age story. You can practically taste the gooey gumdrop goodness from any seat in the house, even if…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Death is an often unwelcome teacher. It descends into our lives suddenly, without warning, or takes its sweet time. No matter when it finds us, Grief is right behind Death, […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
“Measure” is one of those bizarre Shakespearean plays that resides in the space between comedy and tragedy—something that few of the Bard’s works do. Yet you will find yourself mesme…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 13, 2022
As someone whose older sisters are over a dozen years her senior, Sancocho (presented by Visión Latino Theatre Company as part of the fifth Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Fe…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:26PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Eve L. Ewing’s 2019 collection of poems deep dives into the archives of the 1919 Chicago Race Riots—the most noted moment of the country’s Red Summer.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 26, 2022
This psychological thriller lends itself wholeheartedly to the macabre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 22, 2022
Chicago doesn’t have much in the way of immersive theater experiences like Sleep No More in NYC. So when Windy City Playhouse debuted Leslie Liautaud’s Southern Gothic in 2018 it […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:27PMNever before has my Catholic upbringing been helpful in seeing theater. And yet, my mind couldn’t help but wander back to catechism class during Refracted Theatre Company’s inaugural pro…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:12PMThursday, July 7, 2022
Many of our city’s theatrical leaders agree that Chicago is at the forefront of defining the future of the American theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 1, 2022
madeleine george’s modern-day Greek comedy “Hurricane Diane” could not have come at a better time.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 24, 2022
Every piece of art has a timeliness. When it is born and put into the world, it becomes part of its identity for better or worse. For Godspell, that time has come and gone. First staged in 1…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:28AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
For fellow nineties nostalgia seekers, “Cruel Intentions” is one of those quintessential teen drama romps. Chock full of nineties music you will be compelled to sing along (but seriously…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 2, 2022
Rarely do you get such rich storytelling in just over ninety minutes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 21, 2022
In a world like ours so wrought with chaos and war, what happens when freedom is finally achieved? That is something that the play “The Tragedy of King Christophe” attempts to answer.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 1, 2022
When one in four Americans are directly impacted by opioid addiction, any art we create on the subject will have a profound effect.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 21, 2022
“Wife of a Salesman” is full of cogent points about being a woman that are just as relevant now as they were in the show’s 1950s setting.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Much like the show’s spirit, the cast of this production is an homage to togetherness.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
