Love and intimacy remain elusive in the Chicago premiere of MJ Kaufman's play at Redtwist Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:30AMReceiving its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rajiv Joseph's latest panders to its audience under the guise of challenging their assumptions about despotism and loyalty.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMSome of July's Chicago theater highlights.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMLookingglass Theatre Company's adaptation of Jules Verne's novel feels its every league.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMYaël Farber's adaptation of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" arrives with uncomfortable urgency at Victory Gardens Theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:30PMDruid Theatre Company's production of Beckett's most well-known work, produced by Chicago Shakespeare Theater as a part of their WorldStages initiative, begs the question: what exactly are w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMJune brings tension, vengeance, tragedy and rebellion to the Chicago stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMIn collaboration with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Yard returns with their most ambitious and urgent project to date.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMStarring Ivonne Coll (of "Jane the Virgin"), this world premiere at Teatro Vista is tragic and triumphant simultaneously.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMBaisch's voracious appetite produces work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts, more multiplication than addition.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMPast, present and future collide with reality and its alternatives in a wild month of premieres.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMHarking back to the early forties and the late eighties, this revival at Kokandy Productions is not so much timely as full of time.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMNo amount of frosting can sweeten the bitter aftertaste of this Midwest premiere at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThis music/theater hybrid from A Red Orchid takes some creative risks but reinforces some tired stereotypes in the process.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThis wild world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company sees no separation between tail and dog when it comes to wagging.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMThis magical production from Adventure Stage Chicago follows its twin protagonists on a journey of self-discovery through their personal and cultural histories.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMFirebrand Theatre concludes its inaugural season with a progressive production of this Dolly Parton-packed workplace musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMThe U.S. premiere of Simon Stephens' new play at Steep Theatre is an uncompromising vision of toxic masculinity, celebrity culture and the global marketplace.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThe Sound returns with a roman à clef love letter of a world premiere about a young theater company striving for that most specific of victories: a non-equity Jeff Award.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMAs the weather warms up, so do Chicago stages with adventure, intrigue and good old fashioned rock n' roll.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMCourt Theatre's production of this classic sixties film turned stage play has many virtues not the least of which is the young talent on display.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:05PMMia Chung's new play at Sideshow Theatre Company is an inventive and imaginative contrast of totalitarian nightmare and democratic indulgence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:45PMThis local premiere at First Floor Theater? is a poetic day-in-the-life of a young man searching for meaning in his family history.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMPlaywright Kevin Douglas' followup to "Thaddeus and Slocum" at Lookingglass Theatre Company capitulates to the very audience it could be reaching in this comedy about America's heritage of r…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMLast month may have been black history month but the artists involved in these groundbreaking plays know that the conversations about racial injustice and the celebration of black culture re…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThe world premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Young Adult production of Philip Dawkins’ play about bullying and victimhood may be about young people though it is not necessarily writ…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThe premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's new comedy at Victory Gardens is no laughing matter, literally.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMVanessa Stalling directs this invigorating Chicago premiere at the Goodman about a high school girls soccer team.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PMHaven Theatre's production of Brecht's first open rebuke of Nazism is an aesthetically bold, artistically ambitious, and consummately brilliant work of progressive theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:45PMSteppenwolf's Chicago premiere of Clare Barron's play doesn't so much tread water as sink to the bottom of the shallow end.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMFour premieres and a newly reimagined classic set the stage for an exciting month of theater.
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