Thursday, December 17, 2015
Top 5 Dramas of 2015 “Moby Dick,” Lookingglass Theatre Company “Marjorie Prime,” Writers Theatre “Brilliant Adventures,” Steep Theatre Company “How The World Began,” Riven…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:52AMMonday, December 14, 2015
What do you get when you combine a washed up Finnish wedding band, a missing Karelian hot pot and an idiot with a fire arm? A hostage situation! Ok, ok, that’s not a joke. Actually, i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMThursday, December 10, 2015
“Is this some new genre?” whispered my companion about David Ives’ verse adaptation of Jean-François Regnard’s eighteenth-century farce, “Le Légataire universel.” Perhaps Pomo …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
RECOMMENDED When was the last time you familiarized yourself with the story of Robin Hood? Perhaps you’ve seen Disney’s foxy 1973 version or swooned over Kevin Costner in “…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMRECOMMENDED Visually austere, acoustically clean, aromatically alive, the Lincoln Park Conservatory makes a fine setting for Shakespeare’s most sensuous and musical of comedies. When the l…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED I must preface this review by noting that the type of comedy you enjoy is a matter of preference. With that said, The Second City’s “Holidazed and Confused Revue” is not f…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
RECOMMENDED ‘Tis the season for tradition and “A Q Brothers’ Christmas Carol,” now in its third year at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, is easily on its way to becoming…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMSunday, December 6, 2015
RECOMMENDED Written almost ninety years ago, Nöel Coward’s comedy “Private Lives” explores the undiscovered country of couplehood where the heat of love can sometimes burn with hate. …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThursday, December 3, 2015
RECOMMENDED Simultaneously charming and edgy, snobby and subversive, frivolous and thought-provoking, Noel Coward’s “Fallen Angels” is a delightful feast of contradictions. Coward’s …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMRECOMMENDED It’s December and you can’t throw a dreidel without hitting a holiday show in Chicago. If you’re a Grinch or are already sick of the Christmas music that’…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMSunday, November 29, 2015
RECOMMENDED Rough House Puppet Theater’s “Sad Songs for Bad People” is titled correctly although, truth be told, I do not feel like a particularly bad person. Then again, anyone who en…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PMSaturday, November 28, 2015
RECOMMENDED As you sift through the heaps of holiday shows, be sure you don’t leave American Blues Theater’s “It’s A Wonderful Life: Live In Chicago!” off your must see list. More …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMRECOMMENDED The Hebrew word hasbara literally means “explanation.” But to modern-day Israelis it connotes something more like spin: the massaging of facts or almost-facts into propaganda…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
By Kevin Greene First published in 1843, Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol” has since gone on to be one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. Furthe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
RECOMMENDED For all but the cult-like fans of “Mr. Show,” the appearance of “W/ Bob & David” on Netflix is likely little more than a curiosity. For the inquisitive, I recommend …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 21, 2015
RECOMMENDED Economy drives creativity. That force is strong in Hansol Jung’s “No More Sad Things,” currently making its world premiere with Sideshow Theatre Company. This…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMThursday, November 19, 2015
By Kevin Greene I’ll admit that there are still some parts of the theatrical creative process that I take for granted as a critic. Toward the top of that list is the anxiety a critic’s p…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
RECOMMENDED Misery: it’s what’s for dinner in “Pocatello,” MacArthur winner Samuel D. Hunter’s play about the decline of a chain restaurant in the titular Idaho…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:30PMWith the holidays descending quickly upon us, you might be dreading all of the time you’ll be spending with your family in the next six weeks. Cousin Joey might corner you in the livin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM RECOMMENDED Violence is a peculiar type of thoughtlessness. Even well plotted attacks stem from the sheer failure to consider consequences, channel empathy or rationally question one’…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMSunday, November 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED Every person who sees blasphemy in a red Starbucks cup that lacks the adornment of decorated pine trees and jolly old St. Nicholas ought to sit down for a nice, long chat with …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
RECOMMENDED With a few high-profile exceptions, Scandinavians aren’t exactly known for their sunny dispositions. Artists like Jens Lekman, Ingmar Bergman and, of course, Henrik Ibsen, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThursday, November 12, 2015
RECOMMENDED Hershey Felder is one of the last of the old-time actor-managers, specializing in staging one-man musical biographies that combine intimate storytelling with melody. As Irving Be…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:30AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
RECOMMENDED Writer-director Byron Hatfield offers a different perspective on the Star Wars saga in “Stormtrooper Stories,” a comedy about two inept troopers (Matt Lamson and Mark Rosenth…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED There are a few principles of stage drama that every audience member, regardless of age or experience, implicitly understands. Among them is the importance of intentions. More th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMRECOMMENDED There is nothing controversial in observing that women’s rights have changed significantly in the United States since the 1970s: after the passage of the 1974 Equal Cred…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMMonday, November 9, 2015
RECOMMENDED There’s this misconception of mosh pits that they are dangerous places where sadomasochistic pagans and other godless folk maliciously take out their deep-seated aggression on …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 5, 2015
RECOMMENDED Do you ever find yourself reading about a particular religious event in the distant past whose repercussions have been not inconsequentially amplified through time and think “h…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday, November 2, 2015
RECOMMENDED For the last three years I’ve been the organizer of a short film festival dedicated exclusively to the work of high school students from around the world. The films submitted a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:45PMSunday, November 1, 2015
RECOMMENDED There is a good deal of talk about equations in Leigh Fondakowski’s “Spill.” Some are concrete, others highly theoretical. Yet the most impactful is, unsurprisingly, the si…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:04PMFriday, October 30, 2015
RECOMMENDED Last night, after making the trek to and from Glencoe, my girlfriend and I walked to our local grocery store for a snack. Standing before a formidable display of pears, I asked, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:40PM 
