Thursday, 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 08:00AMFriday, October 6, 2023
“We’re trying to find that balance of how much of the personal, how much of the cultural and how much of the overall impact that the man had. We can’t ignore his impact on music. We al…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 4, 2023
This production takes you into the world of Mary Shelley in the most visually stunning way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Wagner and Lyric Opera have had a long and convoluted relationship over the decades. The company built its reputation by centering on Italian repertoire and Wagner was a relative rarity give…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 18, 2023
After a three-year absence following a three-year run, “Hamilton” is back in Chicago for a three-month run.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 24, 2023
The goal of the evening is to serve as an “appetite whetter” for the Lyric's new season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 14, 2023
What is wonderful about “MJ: The Musical” is that it raises as many meaningful questions about creativity when it has a cavernous cultural response and impact as it answers.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
“Pippin” is not your everyday musical. A fictional work that makes loose use of medieval historical figures, the title character is Charlemagne’s oldest son returning home from univers…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 5, 2023
This is the original “West Side Story” as it was originally conceived in 1957, which is to say the original song order is preserved and its radical elements are left to pack a wallop.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 25, 2023
Nick Sandys is directing the world premiere of “Shaw vs. Tunney” produced by Grippo Stage Company
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
The early twentieth-century fictional Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker in E.L. Doctorow’s novel—also the centerpiece of this musical—is a powerful symbol of racial injustice. And yet i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 26, 2023
It’s the story of a man so desperate for the Washington Senators to trounce the Yankees that he is willing to sell his soul to do it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 3, 2023
The lampoon of missionaries that feel the need to create a cookie-cutter world in their own image still resonates.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 24, 2023
British mathematician Alan Turing, who is the father of computer science, was primarily publicly remembered for being convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts and was subject t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:06PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
A jukebox musical that tells the story of Tina Turner, one of the most powerful and unique performers to take a stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Sharon is likely the hottest American director in opera right now. The world premiere of “Proximity: A trio of new American operas” is being dubbed Sharon’s “Lyric Opera main-stage d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
J'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 13, 2023
For this show, the emphasis is on Annie seeking to be loved and accepted and that template is well in place in the new touring production currently playing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
“1776” took our Founding Fathers off their pedestals and revealed them as clay-footed human beings who passionately squabbled over something as fundamental as American independence. Dire…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
This epic national touring production has a diverse cast that sing their heart out—even the kids. Each and every member of the cast and entire ensemble are always singing, dancing and acti…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 6, 2023
Operatic Baritone Will Liverman wanted to reboot Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville" to a contemporary South Side Black barbershop with himself as the barber with a hip-hop soundscape.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 30, 2023
The setting is updated to post-World War II with hunger as the theme. Sir Andrew Davis is back for his first opera as newly-announced Music Director Emeritus.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 23, 2023
Flashy lawyer Billy Flynn, cell matron Mama Morton, headline grabbers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly all need to grab our attention and not let go.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Chicago Opera Theater began as a handful of vocal students of company founder Alan Stone. It was formed by Stone to give his students actual performance practice and experience. Stone’s d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
The forces needed for “White Christmas” are large. “There are six main characters,” says Roger Bingaman, “but there’s an ensemble of twenty-nine. There is tap dancing galore."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 12, 2022
It's not like any other musical you are likely to see. Its clever and well-crafted songs are upbeat, life-affirming and move the action forward. The characters, however, inhabit a dark, post…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 9, 2022
Most of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Northlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” spend Christmastime, 1815.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Coming in to the stage space at the Chopin Theatre this year, it feels like a retro holiday living room, complete with illuminated 1940s-style Christmas trees.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 21, 2022
In the case of Disney’s “The Lion King,” designer/director Julie Taymor’s revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
