Monday, November 18, 2024
Unlike typical jukebox musicals, “A Beautiful Noise” is not an extroverted epic extravaganza, but an introverted intimate introspection.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 4, 2024
It is a rare and wonderful occurrence when you can hear two operas where two different composers have set the same libretto side-by-side.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
What distinguishes “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is not the story that is told but the way in which the story is told.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Freud has been the general director of Lyric Opera since 2011—the titles of president and CEO were added in 2015—the first person recruited from outside of the company to run it in its s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 30, 2024
Lyric Opera’s free pre-season preview concert in Millennium Park has gone from a September extravaganza to a more modest August concert called “Sunday in the Park with Lyric.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
“Back to the Future: The Musical” attempts to flesh out the film’s representation of both the 1950s and the 1980s with a post-millennial overlay.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Every voice is sterling in terms of technique and diction but especially in terms of dynamics, expression and blend, revealing just how gifted Waller is as a songwriter.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 20, 2024
Composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown is sitting in a room with a piano at the Goodman Theatre. A rehearsal of his much-anticipated musical of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
It is obvious that the elements and talent are in place and that the potential is there for this to become a really killer show. Maybe by Broadway.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 17, 2024
City Lit is advertising its season-closing production of “Murder in the Cathedral”—which is director and outgoing producer and artistic director Terry McCabe’s last—as “the first…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 3, 2024
Chris Herzberger has been working on the launch of the pre-Broadway world premiere of the musical of “Death Becomes Her,” currently underway in previews at the Cadillac Palace with a May…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
It has been a fourteen-year dream of director Stearns for “Jersey Boys”—such a popular show in its original Broadway in Chicago run that a separate multi-year Chicago company was creat…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 22, 2024
The best element of this production is the dancing, wonderfully choreographed by Dan Knechtges.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 19, 2024
The juxtaposition of brutal historical awareness with comedy makes “The Thanksgiving Play," which will be presented at Steppenwolf Theatre, such a unique experience.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
It was an inspiring bit of casting to reunite soprano Michelle Bradley and tenor Russell Thomas as the doomed lovers Aida and Radamès.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
Back in the early years of the non-Equity storefront theater company known as Theo—which began as Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre—it was pretty much founder and artistic director Fred Anzevi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 4, 2024
The best thing about “Mrs. Doubtfire: A New Musical Comedy” is that it restores the heartfelt message of the original book—that divorce doesn’t have to be an end for a family, but ca…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 23, 2024
When new Goodman artistic director Susan V. Booth asked Mary Zimmerman what she might want to do this season, a small-scale rethinking of “The Magic Flute” was the response. That means …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 19, 2024
The action takes place in Duluth, Minnesota, but playwright Conor McPherson’s Irish melancholy weighs heavily throughout, with nods to O’Neill and Wilder.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Eclectic is an overused word. But in the case of trumpeter, pianist and composer Terence Blanchard who rose to the top of the jazz world, has composed scores for more than fifty films and mo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 22, 2023
In its initial Broadway run in 2006, the show broke box-office records. It has been a seasonal phenomenon ever since.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
The Broadway-bound fiftieth-anniversary revival of “The Wiz” gets to the heart of what made “The Wiz” so special: song and dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 4, 2023
The setting of “Christmas with C. S. Lewis” is a group of American historians visiting England at Christmastime. “Because Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 20, 2023
“The training is what helps me to sustain and maintain the instrument,” says Betts, referring to her foundation as an operatic soprano. "…I will be maintaining what I’ve learned trai…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 17, 2023
This is only the third time that “Jenufa” has been performed at Lyric Opera, but a number of things made Sunday afternoon’s opening an historic occasion.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Take away all the heart and soul of the property and fill the evening with overblown songs that stop the action rather than advance it and you have “Beetlejuice” the musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 13, 2023
For this rare revival, Lyric chose a Laurent Pelly production that uses maps for scenery and sets the work in World War I.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 6, 2023
Sondheim’s first truly Sondheim-esque musical, Bobbie is turning thirty-five and single in a world of couples. The pressure is on from her married friends to make the plunge.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 25, 2023
This dance-driven melodic fable of a mysterious village in the Scottish highlands that appears once a century is pure enchantment, as the current Music Theater Works production reminds us.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 12, 2023
Resurrection Mary, the Iroquois Theatre fire ghosts, local lore galore. And like Halloween itself, some real chills are part of the fun.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
