Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Mercury Theater presents the story of Gilda Radner as told by her kvetching, entitled best friend.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Brown Paper Box Co.'s production of Stephen Karam's teen drama struggles to reach its potential.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:45AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
In producing this Howard Barker play, Red Tape raises some red flags.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:30PMSondheim's biggest flop looks even worse in 2018 than it did in 1981.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMMarriott Theatre's production of "Ragtime" is a stunning spectacle grounded in social realities.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Despite claims to the contrary, Raven Theatre's latest feels like a product of simpler times.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
The moral of House Theatre's trigger-happy retelling of "Romeo and Juliet" gets lost in the fray.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMPride Films and Plays WWII-set musical has all the aesthetic hallmarks of its time period with the noteworthy exception of its subject: the gay men who served.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMFriday, February 2, 2018
A profile on actor and arts activist Tony Santiago, program manager of Chicago Arts Access and co-founder of The Chicago Theater Accountability Coalition.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
For all its performance chops, Drury Lane's production of "Joseph" is unremittingly tone-deaf.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMFriday, January 19, 2018
This world premiere at Theater Wit explores the intersection of fandom and fanaticism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Babes With Blades' suffragist drama presents a narrow vision of the movement.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Stage Left Theatre's latest traces the lineage of slavery through Reconstruction and Jim Crow to broken windows policing and Black Lives Matter.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMFriday, December 8, 2017
A little humor can go a long way though not always in the right direction in this parody of the beloved 2003 film "Elf"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Lauren Gunderson's lighthearted Shakespeare-centered drama answers the question "What is theater without conflict?"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The inaugural production from Firebrand Theatre resonates boldly.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
The local premiere of this movie musical cult classic turned Tony Award winner will have you leaping from your seat.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMLike its protagonists, this world premiere coming-of-age drama needs to focus more on personal growth.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Rohina Malik's living room romance is revived at the Goodman.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMCourt Theatre's production of this 1976 play about the poet Emily Dickinson falls short of a complete portrait of the complex Massachusetts native.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PM 
