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 …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThe central conflict of “Mosque Alert,” the opposition to a state-of-the-art mosque being built in Naperville, is timely: with the looming threat of a Trump presidency, hate see…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThis adaptation by Jessica Wright Buha and Aileen McGroddy (who also directs) begins as a lecture on James Joyce’s 1922 masterpiece with a professorial Christopher Donaldson setting the sc…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, March 31, 2016
RECOMMENDED The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Historia de Amor (Love Story)” by the Chilean theater company Teatrocinema. The production is based on a graphic novel of th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
RECOMMENDED Abe Koogler’s “Kill Floor” is a thoroughly unappetizing play. I mean that in the best way possible. It emphasizes emotional distance to the point of inducing a kind of hori…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
RECOMMENDED There is a case to be made for the correlation between the expedient rise of fascism and the expansion of expressionistic art in the early twentieth century. On their respective …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMRECOMMENDED It begins at the entrance to TUTA Theatre. The front door is locked so you walk around to the back alley and into the garage with the light on. Once you step past the shelves, th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 28, 2016
Monday “Adding Machine: The Musical” at The Hypocrites. An expressionistic take on the play of the same name. Love, murder and key changes. Through May 15. For tickets and m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
Some dramatic concepts are more suited for a therapist’s office than a theater. Such is the case with Caroline McGraw’s “The Bachelors,” a one-act eruption of fear and loathing now o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
RECOMMENDED Union General Benjamin Butler probably never realized that war could get so personal. Just weeks into the Civil War, he faced an unusual battle, an invasion of his intellectual, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED It is one thing to be captivated or even moved by theater. Yet, to be excited or energized are experiences far more rare. These are reactions spurred from witnessing originality …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 21, 2016
RECOMMENDED I wasn’t always afraid of flying. It happened somewhere in my late teens or early twenties. All of a sudden, a trip to the airport was accompanied by an intense sensation of d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday “That’s Weird, Grandma: The Musical” at Barrel of Monkeys. A clever and funny, touching and poignant collection of songs based on the writings of CPS students. Thr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED Credit the Republican Party, with their nativist platform and wall building speeches, for making this very dark and violent “West Side Story” so relevant to 2016. Often cast …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMSunday, March 20, 2016
RECOMMENDED Of the numerous advantages to mounting a revered classic, perhaps the most underappreciated is that it actually takes the play itself largely out of the equation, freeing up the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED One of life’s greatest blessings is to give life to a tiny human whose eyes look upon you with admiration and whose arms innocently stretch toward you to lead them. That blessi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMLike a car attempting to start in deep winter, A. Rey Pamatmat’s “after all the terrible things I do” stutters and shakes with internal conflict. Gears grind but never fully catch. Whe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 18, 2016
RECOMMENDED In a not too distant future with the encroaching inauguration of the United State’s first female president, a quaint and idyllic queer family bonds with their do-gooder, bi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, March 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED In some ways it’s a great misfortune that Thornton Wilder wrote “Our Town.” A great misfortune in the way that winning the lottery can be a great misfortune. In this case, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
RECOMMENDED Film noir is a stubborn genre, one that refuses to ever go completely out of style. From “Breathless” to “Inherent Vice,” the best of modern noir tends to have at least …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
RECOMMENDED It was over twenty years ago that Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” first opened Off-Broadway in the New York Theatre Workshop. Like “Friends,” it focused on the growing pains o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMRECOMMENDED Fate or free will? It’s a dichotomy that can easily lead to insoluble clashes of conviction. In a time when we are pushed further to the margins of our own beliefs, acknowledgi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Under Lookingglass’ auspices, the hot-blooded and poetically infused romanticism of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” is transposed onto the American Dust Bowl. With its bounti…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMMonday “The Matchmaker” at Goodman Theatre. Thornton Wilder’s madcap romance and the inspiration for “Hello, Dolly!” returns to the city of its creation. Thr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 12, 2016
RECOMMENDED A grease of misery pervades the fast food industry—the ceaseless cycle of uniformly geometric machine-molded meat simulants over the grill in a world where parallelepiped potat…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMFriday, March 11, 2016
Mercy Street Theatre’s “Burn,” a play written by Ian Michael James, is defined in all ways by its potential: Sam (Alex Gudding) wishes he could’ve had a life to lead, Al (Scott Olson…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMLike every television show ever made about life in New York City, Alena Smith’s “The New Sincerity” occurs in an improbably excellent piece of real estate: a split-level loft a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED How does one secure the throne when a whole throng of people stands in the way? Kill them all! And then kill some more folks for good measure! Or, so it goes in Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMOne test of a chic woman’s mettle is how many ways she can deploy her scarf: casually slung over a shoulder, knotted loosely or tightly around the neck, folded, fanned or flounced. This is…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 4, 2016
As an allegory for sectarian disputes of all kinds, “In A Little World of Our Own,” the breakout work from Northern Irish playwright Gary Mitchell, is easy enough to grasp without a back…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThursday, March 3, 2016
Before you ask: no, this is not an adaptation of “Midnight Cowboy” the film. It’s an adaptation of the 1965 book on which the film was based. Still, any adaptation would be incapa…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PM 
