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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Review: Midnight Cowboy/Lifeline Theatre by Kevin Greene

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
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Review: Rolling/Jackalope Theatre Company by Kevin Greene

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 begi…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM
Monday, February 29, 2016

Review: The Compass/Steppenwolf for Young Adults by Kevin Greene

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
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Review: Zoyka’s Apartment/Bluebird Arts by Kevin Greene

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 hard…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM

Othello/Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Kevin Greene

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 jack…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
Thursday, February 25, 2016

A Chance To Be Good: “Richard III” Reimagined with Michael Patrick Thornton and The Gift Theatre by Kevin Greene

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. Thornton t…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: A Loss of Roses/Raven Theatre by Kevin Greene

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

Review: Marnie & Phil: A Circus Love Letter/The Actors Gymnasium by Kevin Greene

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-art…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM

Review: The 39 Steps/Theatre at the Center by Kevin Greene

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
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: Ziryab, The Songbird of Andalusia/Silk Road Rising by Kevin Greene

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
Monday, February 22, 2016

Review: From These Fatal Loins/The Ruckus by Kevin Greene

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…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM

Opening This Week: February 22-28, 2016 by Kevin Greene

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 �…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Review: Cocked/Victory Gardens Theater by Kevin Greene

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 e…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PM

Review: I & You/The Yard & Jackalope Theatre by Kevin Greene

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 …

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Review: 2666/Goodman Theatre by Kevin Greene

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 en…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:30PM

Review: In A Word/Strawdog Theatre Company by Kevin Greene

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 t…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM

Review: Marc Salem’s Mind Over Chicago/Apollo Theater by Kevin Greene

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 re…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Review: The Awake/First Floor Theater by Kevin Greene

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 inte…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM

Review: The Flick/Steppenwolf Theatre Company by Kevin Greene

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 an…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM
Monday, February 15, 2016

Review: Blueberry Toast/Tympanic Theatre Company by Kevin Greene

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 …

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PM

Opening This Week: February 15-21, 2016 by Kevin Greene

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. Thro…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Review: Estrella Cruz [junkyard queen]/Halcyon Theatre by Kevin Greene

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 l…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM

Review: Looking Over the President’s Shoulder/American Blues Theater by Kevin Greene

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 renegade…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Review: Cabaret/Broadway In Chicago and Roundabout Theatre Company by Kevin Greene

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…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM

Review: Interrogation/The Artistic Home by Kevin Greene

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

Review: The Shape of Things/Eclectic Full Contact Theatre by Kevin Greene

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
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Review: Der Rosenkavalier/Lyric Opera of Chicago by Kevin Greene

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 hea…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PM

Review: La Vox Humaine & Gianni Schicchi/Chicago Opera Theater by Kevin Greene

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 wa…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Review: Pop Waits/The Neo-Futurists by Kevin Greene

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 creat…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Review: The Glass Menagerie/The Hypocrites by Kevin Greene

“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 w…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PM

Review: Mutt/Stage Left Theatre and Red Tape Theatre by Kevin Greene

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…

SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime