Tuesday, September 5, 2023
The television show “Dance Moms” has gained wide popularity for featuring overbearing mothers obsessed with their child’s (re: their) dreams of grandeur and stardom, but none of these …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 17, 2023
“The Light” by Loy A. Webb is a seventy-minute one act play about a young Black couple who struggle with a revelation from the past that threatens to break up their budding relationship.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 15, 2023
I agree with real-life director L. Walter Stearns’ note in the program, that “This show has a little something to offend everyone.” The goal is not to offend for the sake of offending,…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
If you’re in the mood for a raunchy rock concert but want to get to bed at a decent time, then check out “Rock of Ages.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Metropolis Performing Arts breathes new life into their production of “Xanadu,” directed by Kevin Wiczer, with choreography by Kristine Burdi and musical direction by Kenny McMullen.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
In an underwater seascape of jewel tone colors and sparkling glass coral reefs, the residents of Bikini Bottom go about their day as usual—a school of sardines flitter around in pink 1960�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 6, 2023
“The Buddy Holly Story” is a heart-warming story wrapped around a rock concert that slips smoothly from song to song and compels the audience to tap their feet, clap their hands and sing…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 26, 2023
The story centers on the teen-to-young adult journey of a man called Youth, an aspiring musician who journeys from the U.S. to Europe in search of identity, stewarded by a fourth-wall breaki…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
“Personality” is based on the life of famed singer, Lloyd Price, one of those names that you may not have heard of, but with whose music you are no doubt familiar.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
The story of two first generation, Asian-American renegades on a spree of crime and passion through the backroads of the Midwest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 2, 2023
The narrative unfolds like viewing a picture up close and slowly stepping backwards to get the big picture. Through a series of short vignettes unfold the lives of townsfolk living in a Poli…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 1, 2023
“Tango” addresses the social stigmatization toward gay people in the context of modern-day Singapore.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
Court Theatre continues their series of plays by Sophocles about the last days of Oedipus reimagined as a Pentecostal church service. There is lots of singing, with each cast member displayi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 18, 2023
The Raven Theatre is transformed into the basement apartment of a three-flat in the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago, where a Black grandmother works tirelessly to protect her home and gra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2023
A show that portrays “real” Muslim characters who spend half the show in their undergarments, twisting and contorting in all manner of sexual positions, and the other half having deep co…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 15, 2023
What does an early twentieth-century Arctic explorer and a modern-day single mother/struggling musician have in common? Almost nothing! And yet they make for the most charming companions in …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 17, 2023
The show centers around waspy, middle-class suburbanites, The Healy family, each of whom are suffering from a different existential crisis.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Adapted from the 1928 satire “The Suicide” by Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman, “Dying For It” tells the story of patriotic proletariats trying to find meaning in an egalitarian, ne…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, April 6, 2023
“A Town Called Progress,” a new comedy written by Trina Kakacek and directed by Anna C. Bahow, explores a hypothetical scenario in which communism, feminism and utopianism are given an h…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Jim Mallon spent years at Harrigan’s on Halsted drinking copious pints of Guinness while pursuing a dream, to have his life’s story documented in some significant way. Mallon’s dream i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 4, 2023
What do you get when you smash together old Flash Gordon serials with intergalactic alien orgies and hidden emotional trauma? While the premise is simple, the execution is luscious and extra…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The history of medical experimentation on Black Americans is historically one of the most diabolical acts committed. This history of inhuman treatment is explored in “How Blood Go.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 24, 2023
The Neo-Futurists transform the theater into a corporate board room, with Windows98-style PowerPoint presentations, frantic focus groups and an overall eerie ambience. Four corporate shills …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Fantasy landscapes are great to build a show around, but sometimes it seems even more fantastical when theater so acutely captures real life—and real emotions.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 17, 2023
“Right To Be Forgotten” by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Sarah Gitenstein, explores the double-edged sword of liberalism. Where do we draw the line between what can and cannot be said?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2023
The story centers around Phillip taking, not finding, for himself a comely wife.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, February 13, 2023
If “Lady Day” was just a concert, you would get your money’s worth. But it’s more than that.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 9, 2023
Toni Stone” by Lydia R. Diamond is about the first professional Black woman baseball player. Nothing about Stone’s life is conventional.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, February 3, 2023
In this of-its-time dramedy, three intersectional women of color jump between the past and present day while tossing around quips of political humor amidst serious discussions about race.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 26, 2023
The play is about a family from the fictional town of Beacon, Kansas, whose struggles with segregation nearly tear them apart.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
The work is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its creator, Jonathan Larson, set between two major life events, the flop of his 1984 show “Superbia” and the success of his po…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
