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RECOMMENDED I’m writing this twenty-four hours after the final blackout and “Grand Concourse” is still making me unsettled. Set in a Bronx soup kitchen run out of the basement of a Cat…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:05PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED Given that its first scene contains a teenage girl scheduling an abortion and then her boyfriend showing her a gun—one that might as well come with a giant neon “Chekhov&…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:30PMMonday, July 6, 2015
RECOMMENDED If I were asked to describe Cock And Bull Theatre’s “Voyage” in one word, that word would be “Ridiculous.” But I don’t mean that strictly as a negative. The piece is …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PMSaturday, July 4, 2015
RECOMMENDED I wonder what it would have been like to watch “Bent” in a parallel universe where Obergefell v. Hodges went the other way. It’s not an easy play to experience under any ci…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:45AMThursday, July 2, 2015
RECOMMENDED The opening moments of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” are pure Chekhov. A brother and sister sit in their country home staring at a pond, hoping to see a blue …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:07AMMonday, June 29, 2015
RECOMMENDED One might think that Sean Graney’s title for his play/adaptation/mashup/opus “All Our Tragic” is a bit of playful hyperbole. But nope. It’s all in there. From Prometheus …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:05AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
When characters clash in Ayad Akhtar’s “The Who & The What,” they do so under a number of different banners. The play, receiving its Midwest premiere at Victory Gardens, has confli…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:00AMThursday, June 18, 2015
RECOMMENDED Priests are common characters in American storytelling but they are rarely ever protagonists. They often have a part to play, it’s just never in their own story. So it is refre…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:15PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
RECOMMENDED Irish playwright Conor McPherson is a master of dread. From “The Weir” to “The Seafarer” to “The Shining City” McPherson’s plays have an impeccable knack for slowly…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:04AMMonday, June 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED Any show buys itself some goodwill when it prominently features the Michael Jackson catalogue. The music of the King of Pop threads its way through Bixby Elliot’s bluntly title…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:30PMFriday, June 12, 2015
On paper, superheroes and stage musicals would seem like a natural fit. Both stories feature larger-than-life characters, bright shiny action and, more often than not, a syrupy core of since…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:15AMMonday, June 8, 2015
RECOMMENDED A playwright friend and I were recently discussing the problems we had with shows that were collections of short plays. While these shows are often promising in theory they usual…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
RECOMMENDED Theater as a whole is starting to come around on sci-fi and fantasy. And while that might put it about twenty years behind the cultural zeitgeist (can’t wait for that three…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
For “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” to work properly, you need to credibly believe two things: the danger, and the liaisons. AstonRep Theatre Company’s revival, directed by Charlie Marie Mc…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:23AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
That title is a little misleading. Or it’s not so much misleading as it is entirely metaphorical. Michael Golamco’s “Cowboy Versus Samurai,” being given its Chicago premiere here by …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:45AMWhy is it that conspiracy theories – like, say, the one about the US government hiring director Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing – continue to endure? Is the belief in a …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:20AMMonday, May 25, 2015
There’s a problem sometimes at music festivals where you’re too far away from the band to hear them. Sometimes it’s because you didn’t get there early enough to get a good spot. Some…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:35AM 
