Lots of singing along in November, but also profound sorrow. It sounds like an election month.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMStart the month with a monstrously huge star of Broadway, end the month with a monster story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWe're finally getting to see a couple productions postponed during the pandemic, plus an ever-expanding Destinos festival.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe big guns of theater and opera are all out this September.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAugust is a great month for some light theatrical entertainment. Like, um, King Lear.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFrom Hedwig to Hobbits, July is a British Invasion in theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMYou might think of this month as "bookended."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMay starts off with a big-budget pre-Broadway show and ends with a shoestring-budget fringe festival.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMClassics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFebruary is a month of debuts—new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAs 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 08:00AMIt's an especially star-studded January on and off Chicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMNo 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 02:32PMHere'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 08:00AMA lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLouis 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 03:40PMTwo plays featuring seven women each and a gender-swapped Sondheim give October feminist flavor.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBig musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMShakespeare outdoors, or Pinter and more in the theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"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 08:00AMTake your pick: musical or off-center romantic comedy
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMay is for musical comedy and edgy new work.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMApril musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFour world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMConsiderations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIf you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
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