Thursday, October 11, 2012
By Eric Shoemaker Sean Graney was not content with “Seven Sicknesses.” It seems that his successful and now traveling adaptation of every Sophocles tragedy merely opened a can of worms�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMMonday, October 8, 2012
RECOMMENDED Kicking off their twenty-eighth season, American Theater Company embarks on a spiritual journey in the aptly titled repertory-style production of “Doubt” and “A…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:24PMThursday, September 20, 2012
By Eric Shoemaker “Our young people are telling the stories of their lives on their bodies,” Dr. Doriane Miller says from the unassuming podium on eta Creative Arts Foundation’s stage.…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
By Jenny Yoon It’s a breezy, idyllic summer night in Roscoe Village. The sleepy, family-oriented neighborhood that houses pretty moms in yoga pants has fallen silent by 8pm on a Monday. It…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Nothing gets old people clapping in unison quite like a contemporary rock musical. Drury Lane’s revival of “Xanadu” certainly doesn’t lack any of the plucky charm of …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMThursday, September 13, 2012
By Dennis Polkow It is a late August day, and Brian Dickie is nursing an iced coffee at a North Side café while reflecting on his thirteen-year tenure as general director of Chicago Opera T…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Seemingly ripped from the headlines, “After” at Profiles Theatre tells the tale of a falsely accused man after he’s exonerated and released from prison. “After”…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PMFriday, September 7, 2012
For a show whose star is dead before the curtain rises, “A Class Act” is a lively tribute to one of Broadway’s greatest composers. Porchlight Music Theatre kicks off its ei…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:03AMMonday, August 27, 2012
The Chicago Now panel discussion and snapshot performances, hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art on August 24, rounded out the contemplative artist side of the Chicago Dancing Festival t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:17PMRECOMMENDED The second in a series of four plays, Richard Nelson’s “Sweet and Sad” takes as its immediate subject a simple gathering of the Apple family for dinner—on the ten…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:09PMRECOMMENDED An unassuming barroom engagement between an aging, criminally minded drunk and a teenage runaway shortly becomes an intense philosophical western of tremendous ambition and execu…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:06PMFriday, August 24, 2012
RECOMMENDED It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but unfortunately that isn’t always true. This unsettling subject matter is at the center of Circle Theatre̵…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMThursday, August 23, 2012
By Eric Shoemaker House Theatre artistic director Nathan Allen and Chris Mathews have partnered to create the epic trilogy “The Iron Stag King,” which Allen describes as the tale of …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
RECOMMENDED “Surely, a man had never before so terribly altered, in so brief a period, as had Roderick Usher!” says the all-too-curious narrator as his eyes befall a boon friend, Roder…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:39PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
By Sharon Hoyer The biggest dance event of the year takes place next week at major venues in and around the Loop. This year’s Dancing Festival expands to six days of performances, films, l…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
RECOMMENDED Summertime has been christened Chicago’s favorite season, not only for muddy music festivals and boozy street fairs, but also for those elusive one-person shows. In putting u…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:03PMMonday, August 6, 2012
RECOMMENDED Kick off your shoes, tease up your hairdo and cross on over to this side of the tracks, otherwise known as Armadillo Acres Trailer Park. Relatively new theater company Kokandy Pr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:35AMAn ambitious work that attempts to not only tell a compelling human story but also ignite newfound amazement for a science normally thought of only in terms of esoteric equations, “Sym…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:30AMChicago Shakespeare Theater approached acclaimed local director Rachel Rockwell more than a year ago to propose a stunning new project: a “Shakespeare in the Parks” tour of Chicago for …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMThursday, August 2, 2012
By Alli Carlisle For Susan O’Halloran, professional storyteller and Chicago native, storytelling and racial justice have always been intertwined. O’Halloran grew up on the South Side in …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:12PMMonday, July 30, 2012
Like the shaky father-and-son relationships this new play unevenly depicts, David Alex’s “Adrift,” being performed at Greenhouse Theater Center by Polarity Ensemble Theatre in a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:10PM 
