Thursday, 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 incapabl…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:30PM [SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Early on in "Rolling," jilted journalist Valerie digs at Sarah Koenig, beloved creator of "Serial." While at first it seems like a put-on, as we spend more time with Val the jab begins to ma…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
RECOMMENDED One of the most powerful capabilities we possess as humans is the ability to make decisions. Our decisions, no matter how big or small, can change the course of our day or derail…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
In Chekhov's "Three Sisters," written in 1900, the universal goal is to be in Moscow. In Mikhail Bulgakov's "Zoyka's Apartment," written a quarter-century later, there's hardly a character w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED Chicago Shakespeare Theater's “Othello” is a man's play in a man's world. It opens with Iago and Roderigo, average white dudes in baseball caps and leather jackets, t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
By Noel Schecter The darkest days for Michael Patrick Thornton began in the immediate aftermath of the spinal strokes that left him paralyzed and comatose for three days in 2003. ThorntonÂ�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
RECOMMENDED One of the noblest services a theater can render is to capably revive an unjustly dismissed work. Raven Theatre has helped right an old wrong with this poignant production of Wil…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED Reviewing "Marnie & Phil: A Circus Love Letter" at the Actors Gymnasium is difficult. Not because the plot is particularly complex or because there's a difficult-to-articulat…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMMENDED One night, Richard Hannay, a dashing thirty-seven-year-old Londoner with a fine pencil mustache, finds himself so filled with ennui that he does what any other reasonably bored …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
RECOMMENDED A stage swathed with oriental rugs. On it a tambourine, a tape deck, a table lamp, a silicone-sleeved glass water bottle, an electric guitar, an amp and a suitcase. Harmonies: ra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Let's start here: all the stuff you've seen and read about Romeo and Juliet was fake, an elaborate ploy so that the pair could run off to Reno together. Juliet (Jillian Rea) is horny and blo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM [SHARE]Monday "A Loss of Roses" at Raven Theatre. The "nearly-lost classic" from William Inge returns to Chicago. Through April 2. For tickets and more information visit raventheatre.com "Romeo and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM [SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2016
RECOMMENDED In the gun debate there are only two sides to choose from. Either you stand with those who hold the Second Amendment sacred or with those that believe guns are the root of all…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED If you were involved in the dramatic arts in high school, you probably don't remember the performances as being the best part of your experience. Then again, perhaps the young pe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM [SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED "2666" is unlike anything you've ever seen before. That much I can promise. Beyond its gargantuan run time"which will be plenty of reason to put some out but also just enough to …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:30PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED Lauren Yee's "In A Word" will leave you in a poetic state of mind. You'll find yourself grasping for ways to describe this manic work that will ultimately fall short of the breat…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]I am of two minds over this mentalist act now ensconced at the Apollo. On the one hand, it's technically amazing, a blast of psychic gee-whiz wonderment as Salem appears to effortlessly read…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
RECOMMENDED "The Awake" details three people's flight from their lives, from circumstances impossible to accept: Nate (Kaiser Ahmed) dreams of being a school teacher while violent interrogat…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED The big screen is our escape hatch into a world more vivid and exciting than our everyday one. But what happens when the hatch closes and the lights come back on? One kind of …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
It's been nearly a year since "Today We Escape,” Tympanic Theatre Company’s short-play festival dedicated to the seminal Radiohead album "OK Computer." They return with "Blueb…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PM [SHARE]Monday February 15 "In A Word" at Strawdog Theatre Company. A world premiere from celebrated playwright Lauren Yee following the success of “Samsara” at Victory Gardens. Through …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
At times, "Estrella Cruz" resembles a collage, a junkyard of ideas that twine together lyrically. Playwright Charise Castro Smith has a sense of dramatic poetry. The playfulness of her langu…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED If you're a progressive"or merely impatient"the wheels of change can feel like they belong to a covered wagon rather than a Tesla. We tend to view entrepreneurs as renegades to b…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
RECOMMENDED "Welcome to Berlin," say several cast members to the young American writer arriving from Paris in search of his novel. The time is 1929 and Berlin is in the waning age of the Wei…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED The ghosts in the Ohio River and the Blue Rose Strangler are omnipresent fears, if only in the imagination of the town of Rising Sun, Indiana. The Harper family, on the other han…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]You have quite possibly already seen or heard of Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things,” a 2001 play that swiftly became the 2003 movie starring Rachel Weisz and Paul Rudd. Th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
RECOMMENDED Can anyone listen to the uprush of that first glorious phrase in “Der Rosenkavalier” without getting goose flesh? Without feeling a joy so intense it puts one's heart…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM [SHARE]La Voix Humaine RECOMMENDED I don't think I was the only one who observed, immediately after the curtain went up Saturday night on the first of two operas at the Harris Theater, that it was …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM [SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
RECOMMENDED Iggy Pop. Tom Waits. Two musicians whose only direct connection is Jim Jarmusch's cult classic "Coffee and Cigarettes." And yet they have plenty in common as icons of creativity …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM [SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
"The Glass Menagerie" comes with its own set of built-in values. Mounting it is like renting a vintage sports car. It is a luxurious, time-tested play that is bound to garner attention wheth…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM [SHARE]RECOMMENDED It’s hard to say anything about anything especially if you’re trying to say something without offending anyone. Taking aim at the media machine that filters out crazy…
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