Thanks to its cast of joyous, nimble clowns—who are also the show’s smart writers—"Places" delights while also provoking, just enough.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe title character of the President of the United States never appears in "POTUS," a riotous political farce with an all-women cast. The comedy does, however, begin with a crisis he created.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe biggest surprise in the engrossing staged version of "Tommy" now at The Goodman is how strongly the work stands alone given the indelible imprint the music by Pete Townshend and his coll…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis show aims to portray the struggles of some of the wives (and eventually ex-wives) of Motown superstars.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMParental sacrifice figures large in this original musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis British musical seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate rhythms with precision and still a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAn incisive, suitably atonal but pitch-perfect Chicago premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that leads, relentlessly, to unexpected heights of humor and dra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLifeline’s funny, poignant, zippy production of Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s 1990 play about the writer’s life-long journey from the Jim Crow South, through the Civil Rights Movement of t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"Big River" is a musical based on Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, with songs by Roger Miller. Mercury Theater’s production is crisply moving, superbly sung and highly entertaining.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMGet downtown and see this show. It may change you for good. It will certainly raise your standards on what to expect from a musical, including one direct from Broadway.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe playwright messes with the rituals and conventions of theater to get deep inside messy interlocking themes, including ethnicity, bias, justice, empathy and creativity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe title character of Jessica Dickey’s play is also the subject of Dava Sobel’s bestselling book of the same name. Sobel’s book about the great scientist’s brilliant, illegitimate c…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA full and convincing portrait of a family that works against great odds to stay together and give its members the support and tough love they need.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor Goodman's current production of Anton Chekhov’s "The Cherry Orchard," Robert Falls has adapted the classic for speed and to make the laugh lines snap so wickedly hard that they elevate…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn the current, riveting, too-short Chicago run of this forty-two-year-old Pulitzer-winning play, the young Black infantrymen play on the best baseball team in the U.S. Army.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"Proximity"’s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat makes a tribute show work? Watch "Reasons" and learn while swaying, clapping, cheering and ultimately rising to your feet to dance and sing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBacked by a seven-piece band, John-Mark McGaha performs in a concert filled with stories and music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe play is set in Room 306 of Memphis’ Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe moving production is author Mahogany L. Browne’s adaptation of her verse novel. Sky, is the thoughtful, athletic, resilient character at the center of this young-adult play.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe work explores the shifting morality—most of it horrifyingly immoral—that overcomes nations, young adults and abandoned children in wartime.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTwenty-four songs in ninety minutes, all stirringly sung, played and arranged. That’s Black Ensemble Theater for you.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDirector Charles Askenaizer proves again that Invictus commands its small stage with strong, energetic performances and with emotionally potent productions.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe Wisconsin here is the Dairy State, not fighting, but ruminating. What swings aren’t the politics but the states of mind.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLynn Nottage sets "Clyde’s," her ninety-minute, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant play, in a grimy truck stop diner somewhere near Reading, Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFiddler's universal power emerges from how the show portrays the details that are particular to the lives of the characters.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"Leonardo!" adapts two acclaimed children’s books by former Sesame Street animator Mo Willems. The books and the play feature two young monsters who fail at scaring children.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe play famously takes place in a part of the city’s African-American South Side where the five-person Younger family occupies a small, decaying kitchenette apartment. There, they dream o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMShakespeare set the action in the French Kingdom of Navarre where young Ferdinand, the king, and his three student pals make their pledge.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt tells the story of a river dolphin that emerges on land every year for three days as a nattily dressed young man.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"The Rivals" has burrowed deep into the culture thanks largely to the inspired character of Mrs. Malaprop, the ignorant, but intellectually confident rich aunt who continually chooses words …
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