This is likely to be the most fun you’ll have in a Chicago theater this season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” the quirky three-part musical web series about the sad machinations of a supervillain, displayed an early example of what entertainment on the Interne…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThere is a clear throughline for staging Nick Payne's play about the possibility of universes existing outside our own during this terrifying moment. But in this production, that line is mud…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe Neo-Futurists deftly handle the complicated and nebulous role of First Lady in a new political anthology that makes us miss their live MainStage shows all the more.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“I hope to see us take a breath, to rest, to unlearn grind culture, to seek to be with each other in meaningful ways and not self-serving ones."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMIf the road to hell is truly paved with good intentions, chances are Mayor Jane Byrne, the subject of this world premiere, was part of the construction crew.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMHeidi Schreck’s play is nothing short of revolutionary but the true measure of its success will be how we carry the baton and keep the conversation going.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PMSomehow inane and tonally dissonant, the only tragedy in this play is that it doesn't end sooner.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PMTime to cry...
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMThis new musical, with a book by Brett Neveu and songs by Jason Narducy, follows a day-in-the-life of a teenage punk band, inspired by Narducy's adolescence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThis production of Caryl Churchill's 1982 play attempts to examine the present by looking to the past.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMA slow and solitary, meditative musing on human nature. And fish.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:45PMThis big-budget musical adaptation of the beloved film written by Tina Fey is less than fetching.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMA new entry into the hallowed tome of Great American Plays arrives in Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PMIn showcasing black and African culture stripped of any specificity, the question posed by this production becomes: who is this really for?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMArtists from four up-and-coming storefront theaters discuss their missions, why they do what they do, and the future of Chicago’s storefront community.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThis world premiere by Kate Tarker compelling asks: how well do you think you know your coworkers? And, by extension, how well do you know yourself?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMA part of Destinos, the third annual Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, this short-run production is born in joy, lives in anger, and ends in hope.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMA South African story of South African means.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMA frivolous and ultimately fruitless exercise in film-to-stage adaptation.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMJ.T. Rogers’ Tony-Award winning play about the back-channel negotiations of the Oslo Accords in 1993 isn’t naive about its subject but nevertheless contains a glimmer of hope.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMWhile nothing happens, everything occurs in the national touring production of this Tony Award-winning 2017 musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThe local premiere of this family drama from Hansol Jung bares its soul and its teeth.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:03PMThe Chicago acting studio's new owners honor the past, look to the future and remain present.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMLiars, tyrants, and bears, oh my!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:15PMBased on the 2007 film of the same name, this world premiere is just as lost as its titular character.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:28PMHyperbole be damned, the latest from Lauren Yee may just be the best show of the year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:09AMA marvelous and magical world premiere that’s intermittently too self-aware for its own good.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMPart workplace social comedy, part hyperactive fever dream, this world premiere has plenty to sip on.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:49AMThis aesthetically adventurous adaptation follows many tributaries before arriving at its destination.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:05PMAnna Jordan's play, receiving its local premiere at Raven, examines toxic masculinity in terms of maternal care and its absence.
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