Friday, March 29, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Classics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
February is a month of debuts—new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
It's an especially star-studded January on and off Chicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 8, 2023
No one compares to Jasmine Amy Rogers, who is Betty Boop, from the voice to the mannerisms to the can-do spirit tempered by vulnerability. And can she dance and sing? Yes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:32PMFriday, December 1, 2023
Here's five shows with nary a, um, Shrek of Christmas in them. If you want a holiday show, you know where to find it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
A lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMSaturday, October 14, 2023
Louis Armstrong completely filled the world he lived in. He was a one-of-a-kind singer and trumpet player. But it was his life as a cultural star, whose story tracks big movements of the twe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:40PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Two plays featuring seven women each and a gender-swapped Sondheim give October feminist flavor.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 1, 2023
The fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 31, 2023
Fall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 31, 2023
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 29, 2023
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the most consistently funny shows—maybe the funniest—I've ever seen on The Second City's stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 26, 2023
Friday, April 28, 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023
April musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Four world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Considerations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 6, 2023
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
The new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
If you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 28, 2022
The month starts serious and ends with farce, with a bit of comedy and opera in between.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 6, 2022
The thought popped into my head that if there was a heaven, it could not be better than this.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Four world premieres and "Rent" — now that's a good month in theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
This season brings out bold new work by some of the city's most creative
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
Brett Neveu debuts his "unofficial sequel" to the Welles film, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Playwright James Ijames makes the case that there's more than one way to tear down a monument with his fever dream of a play about a fever dream.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 26, 2022
A vibrant month in Chicago theater with all the major stages coming back to life, almost at once.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Will Allan's "Campaigns, Inc." is an origin story of modern political mendacity, found in the 1934 governor's race between the incumbent buffoon Frank Merriam and the visionary progressive U…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
