Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Windy City Playhouse's revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage comedy is exactly what it satirizes: a soulless execution of entertainment industry mores.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMMonday, January 21, 2019
Written more than four hundred years ago, this play about collective resolve against singular authority remains urgently contemporary.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:30AMThursday, December 6, 2018
This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company provides much-needed holiday fare for families of the non-Noel persuasion.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMWednesday, November 21, 2018
There's no moral message or social insight to bog down this heart-pounding holiday journey at The Royal George Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Theatre Y presents the English-language premiere of this disquieting exploration of sacrifice and parenting.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMonday, November 5, 2018
The Goodman Theatre stages the world premiere of this bland and meandering reflection on the life of an artist who was anything but.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Combining his years as an improv artist with the storytelling possibilities of radio, Nate Herman's Films for the Ears produce one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff events.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
The latest from Northlight Theatre follows a "ragtag little group of humans" through an increasingly contrived familial plot.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:15PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Black Button Eyes Productions captures the misanthropy in John Collier's stories but misses his sly take on the shadows surrounding civilized life.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMMonday, August 20, 2018
There is not enough dramatic scaffolding to support the bulk of thematic materials in this world premiere from Promethean Theatre Ensemble.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Returning to the Goodman Theatre a year after suffering a heart attack while on its stage, Stacy Keach consummates his performance of the tumultuous, iconic Ernest Hemingway in this affectin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMLike the fields tilled by the victims of Holodomor, Abbey Fenbert’s new play at Red Theater Chicago needs air and space in order to properly grow.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMMonday, June 25, 2018
The Conspirators present a multi-level satire of just about everything in this sharp-edged and in touch production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
Performed in cramped quarters, BoHo Theatre's production of Sondheim's rarely revived musical reveals an ugliness beneath its polished, polyphonic surface.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Molly Smith Metzler's new play at Northlight Theatre explores the realities of modern motherhood.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Nell Benjamin's play at Citadel Theatre attempts to pose reactionary nostalgia as feminist provocation.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Piven Theatre Workshop and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre co-produce this place-based world premiere about Evanston's racially-charged history.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
The Artistic Home's production of Paula Vogel's Pultizer Prize-winning play is storefront theater at its very best.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMThursday, March 29, 2018
Even the formidable leads of this Northlight Theatre production cannot rescue it from Martin McDonagh's bone-deep cynicism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Theater and art in general feed on attention and die of neglect.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:02AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
Intelligence minus sympathy and compassion equals arrogance in this Goodman Theatre production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThursday, February 22, 2018
The Plagiarists mashup 1959 drag comedy "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into an original and subversive world premiere.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Northlight Theatre completes Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy with a production that exerts more force than her script offers.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMFriday, February 9, 2018
This Norwegian moral drama at Strawdog Theatre Company finds two prodigals returning home from America. Getting Ibsen's play to cross the gulf of time and space to Chicago, however, proves a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMSunday, February 4, 2018
In the shadow of nuclear armament, this behind-the-scenes political comedy lacks exactly what its leads are at risk of destroying: life itself.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Lolita Chakrabarti's story of Ira Aldridge returns to Chicago sans fanfare.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
This dysfunctional family drama is heavy on the dysfunction and light on just about everything else.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
Based in Los Angeles and making its local debut at Victory Gardens, Tanya Saracho's behind-the-curtain entertainment industry drama doesn't travel well.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMThursday, November 2, 2017
This co-production with Red Tape Theatre marks a mature and invigorating new phase for Theatre Y.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMFriday, October 13, 2017
Written and directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri, "Quixote" stumbles in its attempt to connect history's most infamous knight errant with contemporary audiences.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM 
