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 08:00AMA 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 08:00AMWhat 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMAdapted 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 08:00AM“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 08:00AMJim 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 08:00AMWhat 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMFantasy 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 08:00AM“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 08:00AMThe story centers around Phillip taking, not finding, for himself a comely wife.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIf “Lady Day” was just a concert, you would get your money’s worth. But it’s more than that.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMToni 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 08:00AMIn 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMThe 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 08:00AMAlthough performed often as a play, the ostensible equality of women to men in modern-day society justifies every recurrence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis is a tale of Hershel of Ostropol and his battle against supernatural demons. But, it's a fun, energetic show fit for the whole family.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMPoliticians and prostitutes collide and expect to see references to line dance, praise dance, honky-tonk high-kicking, Broadway classics (in-the-trenches) and tap dancing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMSet in a mundane suburban middle-class home in Texas, the focus is around two sisters, who are, as the title suggests, both bald, but for very different reasons.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat makes this show a roaring good time is the high level of detail put into the characterizations of each Girl, each actor has crafted their Girl to perfection.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMActors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were inspiration for the two prisoners serving decade-long sentences, arrested for performing radical works to interracial audiences during Apartheid.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAn original play written in the Elizabethan style…a marriage of Shakespearean tropes with a modern twist, creating something “entirely fresh, and unapologetically non-conforming.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAlthough separated by two centuries, the great minds of the artist Frida Kahlo and scholar and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz get a chance to meet.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis reimagining of Noël Coward’s classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.
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