RECOMMENDED James Goldman’s 1966 period piece with contemporary colloquialisms has played the world over, buoyed by the success of the 1968 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O’To…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMAndrew Lloyd Webber’s rock oratorio “Evita” sings a story that never tires in its retelling: the disenfranchised individual, working with their particular skill set and virtually on th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED Perhaps best known for the heroine’s waltz song, which arrives in the first act and isn’t quite equaled for sparkling melody thereafter, there is still much music to savor in…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED Shakespeare’s problematic play “The Tempest” is a heady undertaking for any theater company. Never mind the need to replicate an onstage shipwreck. Culminating in the playw…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMRECOMMENDED “Far From Heaven,” the acclaimed 2002 film starring the translucent Julianne Moore, was penned and directed by Todd Haynes and shot using the carefully composed color…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMBy Aaron Hunt Lyric has announced its electric, eclectic 2016/17 season. If you’re already an operagoer, this is a major opportunity to put seldom-heard notches in your production belt. If…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED Memory is dampened by medical advances, giving succor to those who want to believe AIDS is now a manageable disease. With a generation erased, who is left to remember and tell th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED “Nabucco” established Verdi’s preeminence as an operatic composer not only with its winding melodies and passionate declamations but because it struck a nerve with a popula…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMRECOMMENDED “The Duchess of Malfi” is not a perfect play. The plot jolts, character motivations are incoherent, it is occasionally verbose when it should move like lightening and vice-ve…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMRECOMMENDED As the latest torrents of terrorism shatter our souls with their senseless deaths and enhanced suspicions, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s world-premiere production of “Bel Canto”…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMRECOMMENDED If you’ve groused about Christmas decorations already taking over the seasonal aisle of Walgreens, grumbled about the Christmas tree already glistening from behind the draperi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:30PMRECOMMENDED Franz Lehár’s beloved, wildly successful operetta “The Merry Widow” will woo and then suspend in delicious wistfulness even the staunchest objector to its inclusion i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:30PMFrom the program notes of Northlight Theatre’s “You Can’t Take It With You”: “The Sycamore family lives in Morningside Heights, which was a distinctly middle-class neighborho…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMEclipse Theatre Company ends their Terrance McNally season with “The Lisbon Traviata.” The author of the Maria Callas-centric play “Master Class”, “The Lisbon Traviata” …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:30AMRECOMMENDED A film-to-stage musical enjoying regional success, “White Christmas” is based on the 1954 movie of the same name. Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:45PMRECOMMENDED Lyric Opera of Chicago launched its season with two confections—cakes appeared on stage in both—and now moves on to meat. If “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Cenerentola” fo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:25PMRECOMMENDED The Dead Writers Theatre Collective focuses on presenting classic pieces in the style and ethos of the period in which they were first produced, and they do so with great verve a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AMRECOMMENDED This little operetta dinghy overcame modest box office and, proving the critics right for once, sailed away with the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. No small feat in an era whe…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:30AMRECOMMENDED Willy Russell, playwright of “Educating Rita” and “Shirley Valentine,” wrote the book, music and lyrics for the folk cantata “Blood Brothers,” which ran for twenty-fo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:45PMRECOMMENDED Remember banker’s boxes? Those white, cardboard, 10″H x 12″W x 15″D storage bins that arrived flattened, to be unfolded and refolded until they took a shape t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PMRECOMMENDED With a splash of commedia dell’arte, a spoonful of Restoration comedy, and pounds of clowning, director Barbara Gaines has exploded the up-and-downstairs Mozartian confecti…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:45PMRECOMMENDED Chicago’s opera enthusiasts must be collectively humming as the 2015/2016 opera season explodes on the scene with two Mozart operas, “Lucio Silla” at Chicago Opera Theater,…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED Despite four Tony Award nominations, “Side Show” seemed destined for the Forgotten Musicals shelf. But after enjoying success in regional theater, the show was reworked, and …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PMRECOMMENDED From Homer J. Hickam’s memoir, to a Universal Studios film, comes a musical retelling of an ageless, American story of the right, and the ability, to rise above one’s circums…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PMRECOMMENDED Follow the fluorescent yellow paint on the floor through a dark, winding corridor, and you’ll find yourself immersed in the ethos of the secretive gay bars of the 1970s. A few …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED Mind-numbing with its soft-rocky up-tempo songs and pop-ish ballads, the 1973 and 2014 Tony Award-winning “Pippin” continues to charm all save the occasional music lover. If …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:59AMBy Aaron Hunt Chicago Summer Opera advertises itself as another of our city’s startup, storefront, non-profit operatic enterprises; its title promises a spoonful of gastronomical respite a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:00PMHaving first been groomed in Chicago, “Kinky Boots” won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical. Rock icon Cyndi Lauper finagled Best Score, despite its jumps from song to song without conn…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 02:23PMHow To Run For Mayor The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival provides an important birthing-space for Chicago-connected, nascent musical theater to access our city’s storefront-ethos, where n…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:34AMRECOMMENDED I thought a show where the colorful people stayed on one side of the stage while the colorless people stayed on the other, plot lines fizzled, and the leading players were a scre…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:15AMRECOMMENDED Playwright Brad Fraser examines the nature of true love through the tortured lens of fetishism, idolatry and narcissism in his spectacularly vivid play “Love and Human Remains.…
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