Friday, 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 08:00AMThursday, 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 
