Thursday, September 1, 2022
It 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 08:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2022
"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 …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 30, 2022
Booth, like Robert Falls, whose role she is taking at the Goodman, has shown how a strong, visionary director can keep a creative whirlwind in motion for decades. Over the last twenty-one ye…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Before the two lovers met in person, they knew each other only through letters traded during the final two harrowing years of World War II.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 11, 2022
Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 8, 2022
Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman’s intimate Owen Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Among other compelling reasons to see "Choir Boy" is the power and musicianship on songs sung by the young men who play the students in the choir at the Black, Christian Charles R. Drew Scho…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 27, 2022
The brilliance of this musical about the family and circle of a self-help guru manifests from so many directions that the show sweeps one magically, whimsically, sometimes tragically, in a w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 13, 2022
We need to laugh at the peculiar social and political currents of our time, at the purely silly and absurd and at dick and vagina jokes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 27, 2022
This supersonic super sonic musical journey through The Temptations' lives and the hits catalog of this Motown megagroup is riveting fun.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
Over the last seventy years, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has proved an impressively durable cultural touchstone. Playwright Aaron Sorkin retains the earlier play’s many sordid elements and add…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 19, 2022
She is called Afong Moy by the white men who presented her in a “museum” beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Recreational fencing is an apt metaphor for the kinds of relationships where friends unrelentingly challenge each other.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 16, 2022
Yasen Peyankov’s translation and trimming of the script plays up the comedy, letting it flow from the Chekhovian checklist of dreadful character traits.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Melissa Ross’ "The Luckiest" is a fully compelling, emotionally potent play.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
Many teens will find catharsis and perhaps gothic glamor in the suffering of these teens.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 28, 2022
A daughter holds a bundle of secrets that she feels she must keep, but which uproot her relationship with her family.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
"WTSUWIGD" takes on a wide range of social toxins and portrays an equally wide range of how Blacks cope and respond.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Lucas Hnath’s quick-talking historical drama centers on Isaac Newton's hypothesize that an experiment that requires a needle to be inserted into a living human’s eye will prove his theor…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 24, 2022
The show draws on the familiarity of Hans Christian Andersen’s "Princess and the Pea" but with a celebration of human character and the charms of oddballs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 16, 2022
It is a fascinating exploration of lives and a friendship that ends in a tie, pretty much in the state in which it started. At the same time, it is a play about the lives of men.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 14, 2022
The long-running, ever-changing show is a cirque du smirque that mixes song, comedy and acrobatics.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 24, 2022
For all the trouble "Ruined" so powerfully captures, it also gives us the human capacity for tenderness in the face of anarchy and hellish violence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 17, 2022
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
The story captures God’s chief expectation, that people spend their lives bettering life for all on Earth.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Eight women and one man, vocal powerhouses all, move quickly from tune to tune.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 1, 2022
Smook’s singing, puppetry, voice characterization and mugging have vaudeville polish.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 18, 2022
"The Moors," plays off the mental and physical landscapes of the work of Charlotte and Emily Bronte.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 11, 2022
This year’s fest brings in the very best from all over the United States. Nearly all of the works are new to Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 21, 2021
Fans of physical comedy may find it a rare treat. This is a gentle-hearted show which calls to mind the kind of physical schtick on old TV variety programs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 30, 2021
When it comes to showing heart, especially in the power ballads and anthems, this show is stirring.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
