Purportedly about a boy and a nun, Tom Dudzick's play needs more of either or less of both.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:07PM"We have no children and no relatives we trust with money, so at a certain age we were thinking about what [our] legacy is and our bequest to the future."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThis new play by George Brandt broadly broaches feminist rhetoric without committing to, or really understanding, the realities of being a woman.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMThe unofficial "Year of Frankenstein" concludes with this world premiere adaptation that features Mary Shelley not just as author but player.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMJust say "yas" to these queens.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMAs corporate interests collude with self-interested politicians to rid our city of any remaining strains of legitimate regional music culture, Evanston-born playwright Laura Eason shows just…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMLeader of the Humboldt Park-based theater, Vega and his company are actively working to preserve their community's stories while training a new generation of theater artists.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThis two-hander lays bare the bonds of siblings, forged in the fire of parental expectations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:12AMVeteran actor Joe Foust tactfully navigates the emotional landscape of this powerful one-man show about an extraordinary boy and the town that knew him.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:33PMThis heartfelt musical by Steve Martin and musician Edie Brickell is a marriage of old and new.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMIn its attempt to break the mold, this world premiere leaves a lot on the table.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:50PMOscar Wilde gets a punk rock treatment in this remount of Promethean Theatre Ensemble's 2016 production of Moisés Kaufman's play.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMThis world premiere from Dan Giles brings home the bacon of laughs but leaves audiences hungry for the meat of its subject matter.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMDominique Morisseau returns to Chicago with an urgent new play that maps the direct route from education to incarceration for America's youth of color.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMFlorian Zeller's award-winning 2012 play gets its moving local premiere at Remy Bumppo.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThe highly anticipated citywide initiative has the potential to attract new audiences to the theater and steer regular theatergoers to new companies.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMemory and history entwine in this world premiere at the Goodman.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMWhether you're a casual fan of the franchise or you can make a convincing case for Jar Jar Binks being a Sith Lord, this is the play you're looking for.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMFirst person accounts from the Chicago theater community on a subject that has been raised to a level of national discourse well beyond the theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWriters Theatre offers this Shakespeare comedy with whiplash wit and two of his finest leading ladies.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMJust in time for the holiday sale season, Broken Nose Theatre presents the world premiere of this new play by Spenser Davis about the iniquities and injustices of late capitalism
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMA redux of Terrance McNally's less-than-successful "Broadway, Broadway," Pride Films and Plays' production reminds us just what's in a name: quite a lot.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMPorchlight Music Theatre launches its 2018/19 season with the dazzle and awe of a shooting star.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMWritten in the nineties and set in the fifties, the young women of Lynn Nottage's play, currently being produced at Raven Theatre, eagerly await a revolution that has still yet to materializ…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMInterrobang Theatre Project's production of Edward Albee's 2002 play is surprising only in how unsurprising it is.
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