Thursday, April 11, 2019
Race is just a trading card.
Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
It's as pretty as a pastry.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 28, 2019
It’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named f…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:34AMThursday, March 21, 2019
It's escapism you can feel good about.
In Thomas Nashe's novel The Unfortunate Traveller, the young servant-soldier Jack Wilton swashbuckles his way through the …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Go Team FatGay!
If the 30s are the new 20s, and the 20s are but an extended adolescence, then we may never have to grow up at all if we live long enough. Sam and…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:30PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
This WorldStage Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater renders trauma, memory and youth in its own exquisite language.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMPart of the International Puppet Festival, this "one person" show from Compagnie Non Nova disturbs as much as it delights.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMonday, January 14, 2019
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Closing out their William Inge season, this production from Eclipse Theatre Company walks the line between realism and melodrama with ease.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Promethean Theatre Ensemble's production of Tom Stoppard's ode to balancing reason and ardor is as welcome as ever.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
AstonRep Theatre Company's production of this Martin McDonagh play is as lovely a thing as can be mustered from the playwright's relentlessly bleak vision of humanity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
If “DDR” brings to mind not "Dance Dance Revolution" but “Deutsche Demokratische Republik", The Artistic Home's production of this Tom Stoppard play is probably for you.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play is an impressionistic journey through the history of a controversy.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
City Lit's production of this early work by George Bernard Shaw remains brilliantly funny in our time of appalling displays of vanity and greed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMSunday, August 26, 2018
At Writers Theatre, playwright Qui Nguyen weaves a story that is uniquely Asian and indivisibly American.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Eclipse Theatre Company’s William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Broken Nose Theatre's production of Sam Chanse's play captures the absurd melancholy of life in the sixth mass extinction.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMThose who are gone ensure that they are not forgotten in the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's thriller at Haven Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMMonday, May 21, 2018
John Strand's equivocating biographical play on Antonin Scalia, currently receiving its Chicago premiere at Court Theatre, unconvincingly pits the thirty-year Supreme Court Justice's entrenc…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
This new translation of Aeschylus' play at City Lit Theater is as flat and lifeless as its cardboard puppets.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
A feast for the eyes and ears, this production at Porchlight Music Theatre offers an encouraging parallel world.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMThursday, April 19, 2018
This wrenching, rarely-performed drama from William Inge gets a stirring revival at Eclipse Theatre Company.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMSunday, March 11, 2018
BoHo Theatre's production of Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play makes the transition from paper to performance with excessive fuss.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMMonday, March 5, 2018
“Formosa” hovers between pure dance and historical exegesis, with movements that are pedestrian and formal and images that are deictic and metaphorical, …by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:10AMSunday, February 25, 2018
Of wonders there are many, yet the programs reveal weaknesses becoming endemic to large companies—a preference for the quick hit of the thrill rather than the slower cultivation of nuance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:56AM 
