Wednesday, February 22, 2023
“Villette” is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte’s final novel.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 16, 2023
In Lucas Hnath’s play “The Christians,” the popular pastor of a megachurch tries something truly difficult.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Lookingglass Theatre’s “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” which first opened to glowing reviews in 2018, has become a Chicago holiday theater tradition, along with “The Christmas Carol” …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
“It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster,” said novelist Christopher Buckley. “And I’ve tried.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Emily Means Wills has a unique place in Chicago theater. She helps audience members who are blind, or have low vision, experience live theater by describing what’s happening on the stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
What better way to explore the poisonous effects of repression than by making the respectable Jekyll female, with a malignant male Hyde acting out Jekyll’s hidden desires?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 9, 2022
Kosky did not want a safe “Fiddler.” Kosky wanted the big chorus and full orchestra that can only be provided in an opera house. “It’s a shtetl. It’s a world,” Kosky explains. �…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Babes with Blades Theatre Co., known for its use of stage combat and the casting of women in male roles, explores disability culture and “othering” in its new production of “Richard II…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 29, 2022
What a delight it is to sit on the grass and watch this talented, diverse troupe of actors perform one of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible comedies.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2022
“Lookingglass Alice” reveals the beauty in change and unexpected lessons, while acknowledging their pain.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
A portrait of a fifteenth-century serial killer that you can both hate and secretly cheer for.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Written in 1888, the play centers on Ellida, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper who grew up near the open sea.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
