Friday, May 6, 2016
While watching "Taste” you won't know whether to laugh or cringe. In other dramatic circumstances this might be considered a virtue. However in Red Theater's production, Benjamin Brand…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2016
RECOMMENDED What do you get when you take the dramatic sensibilities of Writers Theatre and mix it up with the comedic instincts of The Second City? The answer is a slick, funny and refreshi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Jessica Anne is a tactful truth-teller, performance artist and oathbreaker; Mike Hamilton is the best actor she knows. "Mike Mother" is ninety minutes of being locked in a roo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
RECOMMENDED At first glance, the 1930s showbiz comedy "Once in a Lifetime" may seem like an odd choice for Strawdog Theatre Company's final mainstage production in their home on Broadway. Fo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Last Friday night I went to see Shaw's 1914 towering tragic-comic masterpiece presented in a "black box" theater on the fourth floor of a warehouse. Experience told me that “Pygmali…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2016
RECOMMENDED There are some musicals that come with the burden of great expectation. "Dreamgirls," which made its Broadway debut in 1981, is one such example. The heart-stopping performance o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
Monday “Once in a Lifetime” at Strawdog Theatre Company. Kaufman and Hart’s classic comedy marks Strawdog’s final show at their Broadway home before their mo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2016
RECOMMENDED Nobody wants the responsibility of telling kids about sex. That's evidenced in the squeamish way the subject is handled in mainstream media as well as the biologically-centered s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, Collaboraction mounts a production as grand in scale as humanly possible. Spanning the birth of the universe to post-apocalyptic America, "Conn…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]1 Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) An extraordinary look at an ordinary life 2 RockCitizen (The Seldoms) Social movements, athletic dancing and rock ‘n’ roll 3 Oth…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
By Loy Webb Actor and comic Melissa DuPrey has a passion for arts, activism and community building that is as large and deep as the Pacific Ocean. Her story is one of terror and triumph. Fro…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
RECOMMENDED Everybody talks about the passing of the American Dream but what about the persistence of the American Nightmare? The latter unfolds in black and white, a violent and never-endin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
"A Splintered Soul" is among the more cynically calculating plays I’ve seen. Playwright Alan Lester Brooks starts with a crime story straight out of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine the…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Have you ever had a dream? A fantasy? A certain frisson of something fabulous to come? A big vision, a prophecy of something monumental, transcendent, opulent? Beyond that, do wh…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
RECOMMENDED Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Stephen Adly Guirgis got his break in 2000 with "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train," a play that in 2016 feels distressingly timeless. Part …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Currently receiving its world premiere at A Red Orchid, Ike Holter's "Sender" scrapes the bottom of the millennial barrel for inspiration. What it dredges up is grody and a shade despi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Our memory can have a mind of its own. For example, our remembrance of things past sometimes involves things that never happened or"at the least"didn't really happen the way we "recall" them…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
RECOMMENDED Sarah Myers' "The Realm" is not a perfect play but it is a perfect fit for the tiny Side Project space. Myers’ imaginative but unfinished portrait of a dystopian future whe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday “Sender” at A Red Orchid Theatre. Local playwright Ike Holter examines whether growing up is even worth it. Through May 29. For tickets and more information visit ar…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED William Shakespeare was the son of a leatherworker. Billy Shakes slanged the lingo with diction and confabulations like swagger, invulnerable, assassination, dexterous, madcap, m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
Samuel D. Hunter has established himself as one of the great chroniclers of the heartland. He locates bountiful riches in both the endless stretches of untamed earth and splotches of modern …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
By Loy Webb Dr. Charles Johnson is more than an author. He is a literary icon. His historical novel "Middle Passage," about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship, has been ingra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
RECOMMENDED "How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients" is a strange organism. Despite the clear artifice, with design inspired by propaganda and all movement disciplined an…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]As a cultural critique, much of the spark that made "The Misanthrope" work in the seventeenth century is extinguished. This is partly because Martin Crimp's decision to emigrate Moliere&#…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
RECOMMENDED When we hear about a play being provocative we generally assume that any reactions it piques usually occur internally. Save for the occasional murmur of approval, the fourt…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]"Jensen & Wit" is about a super cute lesbian couple who're trying to conceive and get married. Naturally there are obstacles such as outdated homophobic prejudices. To make things wor…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
RECOMMENDED Hazel, that spunky maid with more heart than tact, was first introduced to the public as a single-panel cartoon in 1943. Immensely popular, the cartoon later became a sitcom s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]When you write and stage a play about famous people, you're taking a big gamble. Your audiences will not only expect the usual strong storytelling of any good drama but also demand authentic…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED The quality that has solidified Tracy Letts’ reputation as a contemporary playwrighting master is his unwillingness to be put into a literary box. From his debut play ̶…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday “Carlyle” at Goodman Theatre. Playwright Thomas Bradshaw takes aim at both sides of the political establishment. Through May 1. For tickets and more information visi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
RECOMMENDED What do I remember about high school? Traversing hallways between class and hearing gossip that would transform into a miasma of rumors about you. The friends you have aren't …
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