The split bill between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and RE|Dance Group is a gentle reminder of what’s been missing from our storytelling diets.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“I’m feeling like: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell tells me when I ask how she approached curating “Re/turn,” running…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe Seldoms new work explores how turf grass and cannabis have each been commodified, weaponized, and used as moral indicators.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLights up, curtains up! With any luck, feet will once again hit the boards of stages large and small this month.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"There’s a bit of nostalgia, a bit of pride, a lot of love,” Kyle Abraham says of his new piece, set to the music of D’Angelo.
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SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn September for one night only.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMCommercial corridor revitalization can aspire to more than shops and restaurants, and it's exciting to see an arts organization anchor a block.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMJacob Jonas the Company reached a widening web of collaborators across the globe. The result is a collection of three-to-ten minute finely tuned gems, visually arresting with gorgeous musica…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"It felt like a black hole and I was slowly maneuvering my way inch by inch. But it allowed me to have space to learn what happened in the past. We’ve been here twenty-five years and it’…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMChicago theaters throw open their doors this month. Here's what to catch indoors and out.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMJournalist Eddie Arruza's hard-boiled radio drama is a well-crafted love-letter to the genre, but feels out of touch with the times.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe outdoor performance promises to make up for a year-plus of constrained and isolated living with larger-than-life pomp and spectacle.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA new show that blends surrealist poetry, improvisatory opera techniques, new music and dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMedina Theater Collective’s inaugural production about daily life in Palestine is smart, tender, at times funny and a consistently compassionate script.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"The thought about doing something that maps the richness, the ecology of our performing arts field—and literally with the geography on the map—began to excite me.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTheater and dance performances to experience in June
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMYoshinojo Fujima and puppeteers Tom Lee and Ryugyoku Nishikawa each developed separate performances based on a popular classic Kabuki scene of young heartache, focusing on what Fujima calls …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMay brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe company’s season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"In the essence of contemporary dance and contemporary meaning, now, there are a lot of voices out there that maybe we haven’t explored. There are choreographers who haven’t had the oppo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMChicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis new short dance film serves as a gentle reminder that magic can still happen, even during a year in quarantine.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDenise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMarch roars in with virtual one-on-one plays, an alt dance festival and a gradual return to in-person performance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThanks to the ingenuity of Chicago’s dance community through a lean ten years and a hellish ten months, Chicago remains, and will remain a mecca for dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLive readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDecember theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
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