Wednesday, June 25, 2025
This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with “Twelfth Night.” Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as “American as apple pie.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
“Pippin” was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies musical, “Pippin” is edgier and darker than the big 1940s music…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 13, 2025
“Iraq, But Funny” will join “The Arabian Nights” and “Metamorphoses” at the top of the Lookingglass canon. It is not to be missed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
“Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues” is a warmhearted and funny play that celebrates both vaudeville and the possibility of friendship across cultural and generational divides.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 6, 2025
Lifeline’s production takes on misinformation, a clueless media and the rejection of science—all worthy targets. But the death rays don’t always land.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 22, 2025
Why American Players Theatre has managed to survive for forty-six seasons in the Wisconsin woods while fancier, more centrally located, and less mosquito-y venues have closed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 16, 2025
“The Antiquities” is a play of big ideas about the meaning of life. It reminds us that even if humans are just a blip on the universal timeline, we had some things worth remembering. Get…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
When audience members enter the Trap Door Theatre for Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” they see a nearly naked man, sitting on a chair with his face to the wall. They learn that the man is …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 1, 2025
Any play that takes on Berlin during the Weimar Republic era must operate in “Cabaret’”s long shadow. “Berlin,” now in its world premiere at the Court Theatre, tells stories from t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 14, 2025
This isn’t a feel-good or a perfect play, but it is a powerful one.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 27, 2025
How did one group, formed by often-feuding brothers from working-class North London, have this much depth and scope? “Sunny Afternoon,” a musical playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 24, 2025
Depending on your mood and disposition, the magical ending of this play might make you roll your eyes. But I always find it moving, and more so now in a time of so much anger and bitterness.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 3, 2025
Here’s some advice: Go see “Titus Andronicus” at Redtwist Theatre. It’s a shocking, energetic and muscular version of Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, filled with gore, excellent st…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
The Oscar-winning actor stars in the marital drama opposite Ian Barford and Robert Sean Leonard at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Sadieh Rifai is a playwright to watch and this is a play worth seeing. A little trimming and shaping would make it better.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Elliot Esquivel plays Jeff, the graveyard-shift security officer at a drab New York apartment building. He’s at the center of the action in this 2001 Kenneth Lonergan play about the diffic…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2025
The reopening of Lookingglass this winter with “Circus Quixote” is a joyful event, and comes after a lot of soul-searching.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 9, 2025
“Fat Ham,” a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 and got nominated for five Tony Awards. It’s set at a Southern cookout. Juicy, a young q…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 12, 2024
A new adaptation by Lauren Gunderson, premiering at Northlight Theatre, avoids the sentimental piety that mars some versions by using more language from Alcott’s astonishing book.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 25, 2024
“The Secret Garden” is healing: If you come into this show like Mary, cross and wounded, you may come out warm and blooming.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, November 7, 2024
This is a moving and magical show, exploring the idea of human genius and transcendence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 1, 2024
This 2016 play by Rockford-born Nathan Alan Davis asks what justifies violence, a question that resonates with today’s global struggles.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
There is magic in the setting for Kokandy Productions’ fine and intimate telling of Stephen Sondheim’s 1986 musical “Into the Woods”—a tale of wishes, spells and deadly danger.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
The production has many appealing qualities, but the play doesn’t quite satisfy. It needs more—more music, more convincing dialogue. I wanted the full pierogi plate, but left feeling a l…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
If you like Stephen King or psychological thrillers in general, don’t miss this show. There’s magic here.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
It’s a powerful and rare play that puts a spotlight on a regular working-class woman, bravely negotiating a difficult life.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
“Henry V” is like one of those M.C. Escher prints where sometimes you see fish and sometimes ducks—it plays with your perception.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 9, 2024
Yando, who played Scrooge in The Goodman Theatre’s “The Christmas Carol” for sixteen years and is known for playing complicated, dark characters, will take on the prickly Severus Snape…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 26, 2024
The performances are real, and the play doesn’t feel like a gimmick but a true portrayal of how life works. It’s like cubism in story form—the variations are altogether at once.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 22, 2024
“The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool” is a bawdy, witty, fast-paced tragicomedy, brilliantly acted and expertly plotted.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2024
There’s no time wrong for “King Lear,” and if you haven’t seen a live performance, American Players Theatre’s production is a great place to start.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
