Friday, May 23, 2025
In answering its mission to bring little- or too seldom-heard Italian opera masterworks to Chicago stages, the Opera Festival of Chicago has found its place in the mix, adding to the city's …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Music Theater Works offers a version, as directed by Brianna Borger, that promises to focus on the characters, having set aside the fussy pageantry.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
If you're a fan of the board game or the movie, or if you just love to belly-laugh over witty rejoinders and beautifully executed stand-up comedy, "Clue" at Mercury Theater is just the thing…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2022
Beginning his second full-time season with Lyric, Enrique Mazzola proves once again his connection to the early operas of Verdi, shepherding Lyric's fine orchestra, mighty chorus, and a grou…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The piece is given the category of "Southern Gothic Fable," a moniker that deserves unpacking.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 12, 2022
There is more than a kernel of something fantastic here. This is the sort of thing that storefront theater in Chicago can create out of spit-and-a-snit.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2021
If you've been needing a little Christmas, and you've gotten to the point where you need it this very minute, you're in luck.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 15, 2021
With the programming of the first Spanish-language opera to appear on the main stage, the company continues its climb toward greater inclusivity, the first with a Spanish libretto to be comm…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 5, 2021
Directors Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky took the piece in a decidedly high-tech angle, using animation and film.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Lyric has opened this season with a production that is delivered open-throttle by everyone involved.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Ike Holter's new work is razor sharp and faster than a speeding bullet while maintaining a grace and a lightness that balances the weight of the message.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Nelson Diaz-Marcano's new play illustrates the complexity of individual perspectives and that unification is no simple task.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2020
The Lyric Opera's season opener balances the gravitas of the moment with joy and celebration
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2020
In the wake of a pandemic, the company's EmpowerYouth! initiative was able to quickly adapt to the limitations and opportunities of the New Normal.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
"Contemporary opera is our way to make the audience aware of contemporary problems and to open our minds to see possible solutions to those problems."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
Director Richard Jones projects psychological depth onto Tchaikovsky's opera to such shocking effect that it must be seen to be conceived.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2020
Lyric's production of "Madama Butterfly" is fashioned to invite discussion rather than uninformed permissiveness
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
If our country's politics is exhausting you with its complexity, this production offers the opportunity to consider some of the same themes in a gentler rhythm.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
Kristine Thatcher's biographical drama on Barbara Jordan resurfaces at a crucial juncture in American history.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
Robert Falls' understated production does not impose its will upon the audience but rather presents the facts of Mozart's opera plainly.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2019
A stirring opera conceived by a U.S. Staff Sergeant and brought to life by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerry Dye for the benefit of all.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of Billy Webber's Academy Award-winning 1950 film gets the star treatment at Porchlight.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Incoming music director Enrique Mazzola takes the reins on this early Verdi masterpiece with tact and aplomb.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The local premiere of Rachel Bonds' play, featuring music by The Bengsons, leaves much on said.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Led by Mary Zimmerman, this pitch-perfect revival is the ideal accompaniment to a summer night.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Sitting on the fence between camp and cautionary tale, this rock opera unveils a world of love and lust that is more finger-to-finger than face-to-face.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
Tony Award winner and Chicago native David Cromer directs this gut-wrenchingly contemporary musical about love, loss and living on.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
