Saturday, November 22, 2014
RECOMMENDED The tale of an old miser who has no interest in the holiday spirit until his past, present and future come haunting him one Christmas Eve is fairly well known. Though the story i…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Watching a Greek drama is odd, because your moral compass gets completely rewritten. There's a moment in Nicholas Rudell's new translation of Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis" when…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
RECOMMENDED As a first time Broadway-esque experience, this year's iteration of "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical" performs its duties with enough pleasing flair and up…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
RECOMMENDED If you are a newcomer to Benjamin Britten's masterpiece "The Rape of Lucretia," and aren't familiar with the semi-legend told by Roman writers and remembered in paintings of nake…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
RECOMMENDED The specter of loss hangs like a literal specter, a ghost, over Stephan Karam's new play "The Humans," currently receiving its world premiere at American Theater Company. The los…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
"It's A Wonderful Santaland Miracle Nut-Cracking Christmas Story… Jews Welcome" is a Christmas cabaret from Stage 773 artistic director Brian Posen that seeks to hearken back to the wholes…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED From the orchestral bubbles at the top of the show"piccolos piping and xylophones pounding"there can be no doubt that you're in for an evening of Gershwin. The brothers George an…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]I wouldn't be the first critic to note that the real mystery of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" is not who killed the hateful houseguest (who seriously had it coming) at Monkswell Manor in…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Just once, I would like to invite someone along to see The House Theatre’s production of “The Nutcracker” without telling them what they were getting into. For …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
RECOMMENDED Novelist and playwright Elizabeth Berg ("Over the Hill and Through the Woods," "The Pull of the Moon"), 16th Street Artistic Associate and Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2014
RECOMMENDED Let's begin by admitting that burlesque-type entertainment is not to everyone's taste. Then let's revisit the sage advice about trying everything twice to see if you like it, sin…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
RECOMMENDED Wouldn't it be great if there were a book that provided all the dos and don'ts to loving the single life? Wouldn't it be nice to have a book about dating that everyone could read…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]By Aaron Hunt With thirty-six Joseph Jefferson nominations and nine wins since Redtwist Theatre's first show in the Edgewater neighborhood opened in September 2003, it might seem that the co…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
RECOMMENDED At the heart of City Lit's "Holmes and Watson" is the co-dependent relationship between the two titular characters. Holmes, to put it bluntly, can be a bit pedantic and his obses…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
In a set of extremely brief vignettes, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble relates the experiences of American women in the armed forces through Megan Carney's new play "Women At War."Â Based on t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2014
If you are a fan of the golden-age of musicals, if you haven't been able to give up your LP of the original cast recording of "Camelot," with Julie Andrews's soaring soprano seeming to posse…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
RECOMMENDED The question posited by Jeff Talbott's "The Submission" is one of ownership. Who owns a story? And, whose tale is it to tell? Danny (played by Nicholas Bailey) has written a play…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
RECOMMENDED More than anything, I think I appreciated "Out of Disorder's" sequencing. The show is actually a pairing of two solo shows: "Hunger Pains" by Christopher L. Moore and "I'm Differ…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
RECOMMENDED Someone at the money-making end of the performance rights for the Maury Yeston/Peter Stone musical "Titanic" has come up with more room in their pockets than seemed appropriate, …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
RECOMMENDED There are those who may grouse at the remounting of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals that paved the way for J.R. Brown, Guettel and Sondhiem. But "South Pacific" won't go a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PM[SHARE]The (figurative) curtain opens upon a tempest, as a boat off the Irish coast founders and sinks amid hysteria and confusion onshore. Sadly, that also describes Abby Spallen's 2009 play, whic…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
RECOMMENDED Not all opera roles are created equal, and neither are all opera singers. But singers will be offered roles for which they might type physically, and may accept them for greater …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
RECOMMENDED Director András Visky, in collaboration with designer Péter Szabó, roots this Samuel Beckett adaptation in our time and space through the visceral force of sound, design a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
RECOMMENDED Director Linda Fortunato and the cast of BoHo Theatre's production of "Parade" know that the game is to tell a story. The trial of Leo Frank, an inveterate miscarriage of justice…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
Stephen Sondheim's long, lauded, and continuing career in the lyric theater has given opportunity for discovery as to his compositional demons, and the fire he uses to bully them into delive…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
RECOMMENDED The setting starts out so lovely. You walk into Oracle's cozy little cabin of a space off of Broadway and you're greeted with what looks like a charming Tuscan villa. It's the ki…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
RECOMMENDED Some of the most unsettling characters in horror films aren't the demonic phantasms or unkillable slashers, but the just-real-enough weirdos who inhabit the margins of the narrat…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:30PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED "When you're real, you don't mind being hurt.” This central theme permeates an affable and vibrant staging of Margery Williams' timeless book "The Velveteen Rabbit," which …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED There is something significant about the prolific writer George Orwell using stories as his vehicle for political action. Orwell, who fought in the Spanish Civil War and suffered…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
RECOMMENDED It was a happy coincidence that I happened to catch Theatre de la Ville's "Ionesco Suite" within a day of seeing Strawdog Theatre's production of "Fail/Safe." Both shows traffic …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
By Hugh Iglarsh If any one play embodies Theater of the Absurd, it's Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," in which protagonist Winnie chatters away through Act I while buried above her waist in, w…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:17AM[SHARE] 
