Tuesday, 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 08:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2023
It is in sleep that everything happens, and an office drone becomes a hero and a warrior. His quest is figuring out how to bring his dream life into his real one.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 1, 2023
This is true, exciting storefront theater, set in a literal, narrow storefront on 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood. It’s challenging, passionate, and beautifully in your face.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
For the last play he programmed as Goodman’s artistic director, Falls chose a masterpiece about change and endings—Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 20, 2023
One of William Shakespeare’s earliest plays, “The Comedy of Errors” is sublimely ridiculous.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 17, 2023
There are lies told for art and lies told for power. In art, a lie (known as a story), can show what’s true. In politics, lies oppress. This play reveals hard truths about fascism’s dest…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Fighting a revolution looks like glorious fun from the outside. On the inside, you see friends die and family members suffer.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
“Fen,” a revival of a 1983 Caryl Churchhill play, is about women in the rural lowlands of England. But the distant setting in a somewhat distant time doesn’t matter, because the confli…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
“Villette” is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte’s final novel.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
