Wednesday, November 10, 2021
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 08:00AMWednesday, November 3, 2021
“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 08:00AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
The Seldoms new work explores how turf grass and cannabis have each been commodified, weaponized, and used as moral indicators.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Lights 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 08:00AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
"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.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Commercial 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 08:00AMWednesday, August 25, 2021
Jacob 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 08:00AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
"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 08:00AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Chicago theaters throw open their doors this month. Here's what to catch indoors and out.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Journalist 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 08:00AMTuesday, July 13, 2021
The 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 08:00AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
A new show that blends surrealist poetry, improvisatory opera techniques, new music and dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Medina 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 08:00AMTuesday, June 1, 2021
"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 08:00AMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Yoshinojo 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 08:00AMTuesday, April 27, 2021
May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
The 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 08:00AMTuesday, April 6, 2021
"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 08:00AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Chicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
This 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 08:00AMTuesday, March 2, 2021
Denise 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 08:00AMTuesday, February 23, 2021
March 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 08:00AMTuesday, February 16, 2021
Thanks 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 08:00AMTuesday, January 26, 2021
Live readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
The company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2020
December theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
