Tuesday, April 16, 2024
This show is alive. For the two hours spent in the tiny Bucktown theater, you can imagine you have stepped into a Toulouse-Lautrec painting—drinking absinthe and watching the can-can.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 12, 2024
Lennix, known for his work on television’s “The Blacklist” and “Dollhouse” and movies like “The Five Heartbeats” and “Ray,” is a busy man around Chicago these days. He’s …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 11, 2024
Too much of Tom Stoppard’s absurdist, existential tragicomedy about two minor Shakespearean characters has been trimmed from this production, which is too bad, because the play is brillian…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 28, 2024
This is a moving, beautifully written and honest play that discusses generational conflict—between old ideas of “purpose” and spirituality and new ones, between the need for truth and …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
This play sees the contradictions at the heart of this country—the tragic infrastructure under its noble façade. Monticello won’t look the same when you think of all the people who were…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
You don’t come to “Richard III” for history—you come for spectacle and gore, and Chicago Shakespeare delivers.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 12, 2024
In presenting the words of real people talking about America’s troubled education and criminal justice system in her 2015 play “Notes from the Field,” writer and actress Anna Deavere S…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 5, 2024
The social media world is a "cool" place (in Marshall McLuhan's term)—you have to fill in the details. The story might work better in a cooler medium, like television.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
In its Chicago premiere, “Champion” has strong vocal performances, exuberant dancing and a creative, multi-level set by Allen Moyer, which uses projected images of real newspaper headlin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
The actors are telling a story that never finds its way, and leaves too many unanswered questions.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2024
It’s January in Chicago, and we must somehow survive it. You could go to Miami, but not everyone has the time. So here’s a closer source of heat—a dynamite production of “Anything Go…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 18, 2024
Both the poetry and the genre-defying nature of “Illinoise” made it a favorite of Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck. Peck worked with longtime friend and collaborator Stevens …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 7, 2023
It’s a sweet story, beautifully performed, about a friendship between two teenage girls. One of them is a mermaid or selkie who takes care of whales.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 30, 2023
This story has remained popular for 180 years because Scrooge is all of us, hurt by the world, trying hard to be tougher than we really are. Sometimes, we need to lower our defenses and reme…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 16, 2023
The moment Rebecca Spence steps on the Court Theatre stage as Eleanor of Aquitaine, the atmosphere changes. Here’s something special.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 7, 2023
This new production of “Twelfth Night,” directed by first-generation Jamaican American director Tyrone Phillips with a mostly Black cast and reggae music, captures the spirit, the langua…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 2, 2023
The monster in “The Night of the Hunter” is not a vampire, or a werewolf, or any kind of supernatural, European fiend. He is a true American type and scarier than any Halloween monster, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
The talented cast sells every song and bawdy joke for all they’re worth, and you’ll have a good, silly time.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 29, 2023
Trap Door opens its thirtieth season with an early play by one of the twentieth century’s kings of strange—Polish surrealist writer, artist, photographer and drug-adventurer Stanislaw I.…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
This could be anywhere and any time in the modern era, with people being turned into numbers, and their stories into “cases.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 22, 2023
There’s a danger of being caught in the folds of time—you need friends, celebration and human contact to pull you free. So grab a friend and go see “Revolution”—it’s time to get …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, September 21, 2023
A dinner party is a great device for theatrical conflict. There’s nothing like too much wine and miscommunication to draw all the poisons out of the mud.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2023
Majok is back in Chicago, getting ready for a production of her 2020 play “Sanctuary City,” at Steppenwolf Theatre, where it will run from September 14 through November 18. Majok says sh…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 7, 2023
“Next to Normal,” with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, is not up to the challenge and complexity of its subject.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 21, 2023
In a Northwest Side warehouse, you can visit the apartment of a Mexican family, anxious because the father has been deported. Or a multi-generation Filipino family, about to cook supper. The…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 20, 2023
Midsommer’s new production, playing in Chicago parks through August 13, shows that in the right hands, “Cymbeline” is funny, compelling and surprisingly touching.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 17, 2023
George Brant’s “Marie and Rosetta” at Northlight Theatre offers both great music and a real story. Directed by E. Faye Butler, it’s about the friendship and musical collaboration bet…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 12, 2023
A twenty-five-year-old anniversary is tough to achieve in a marriage, and maybe a bigger challenge in the art world. Now, Congo Square is not only continuing to produce new work, but is plan…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
“Another Marriage,” a play by Steppenwolf ensemble member Kate Arrington, takes on the reality of how both the birth of a child and unequal career success can affect a relationship.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 8, 2023
Written by John Pielmeier in 1979, the play is about a young nun named Agnes found bleeding and unconscious in her convent bedroom. The audience gets the full, hurricane blast of this perfor…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
When a terrific singing actress is in the role of Rose, you can’t take your eyes from her, and you can’t help but sympathize.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
