“Blue” is a powerful and moving new work deeply rooted in the continuum of operatic tradition.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMUnlike typical jukebox musicals, “A Beautiful Noise” is not an extroverted epic extravaganza, but an introverted intimate introspection.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt 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 08:00AMWhat 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 08:00AMA triumph all around that is not to be missed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFreud 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 08:00AMLyric 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 08:00AM“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 08:00AMEvery 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 08:00AMComposer 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 08:00AMIt 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 08:00AMCity 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 08:00AMChris 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 08:00AMIt 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 08:00AMThe best element of this production is the dancing, wonderfully choreographed by Dan Knechtges.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMIt 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 08:00AMBack 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMWhen 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMEclectic 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 08:00AMIn 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AM“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 08:00AMThis 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 08:00AMTake 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 08:00AMFor 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 08:00AMSondheim’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 08:00AMThis 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.
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