4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
“Circling the Square” at the Athenaeum Theatre continues in the immersive, interdisciplinary mode for which Hedwig is known"and promises to raise the bar a notch. Also on the pro…
RECOMMENDED There is a case to be made for the correlation between the expedient rise of fascism and the expansion of expressionistic art in the early twentieth century. On their respective …
RECOMMENDED It begins at the entrance to TUTA Theatre. The front door is locked so you walk around to the back alley and into the garage with the light on. Once you step past the shelves, th…
RECOMMENDED Before seeing this production, I didn't know much about "Matilda: The Musical." By the time I left the theater, it had become one of my favorite shows. The cast is filled with in…
Monday “Adding Machine: The Musical” at The Hypocrites. An expressionistic take on the play of the same name. Love, murder and key changes. Through May 15. For tic…
RECOMMENDED Taking place over three weekends at Links Hall,”The Tea Project” tackles questions of racism in American foreign and domestic policies that have not only opened the f…
RECOMMENDED When one thinks of narrative dance, the first thing to come to mind is likely either story ballet"swans, princes and evil witches frolicking through a magical, wordless realm of …
RECOMMENDED As Plato asserted, we are born with a memory of forms. Bringing together several years worth of relationship histories"between herself and lovers, friends, teachers, colleagues, …
By Sharon Hoyer Butoh artist Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, founder/artistic director of hip-hop performance group Rennie Harris Puremovement, merge dance forces into an entrancing, …
Some dramatic concepts are more suited for a therapist's office than a theater. Such is the case with Caroline McGraw's "The Bachelors," a one-act eruption of fear and loathing now on displa…
RECOMMENDED Union General Benjamin Butler probably never realized that war could get so personal. Just weeks into the Civil War, he faced an unusual battle, an invasion of his intellectual, …
RECOMMENDED It is one thing to be captivated or even moved by theater. Yet, to be excited or energized are experiences far more rare. These are reactions spurred from witnessing originality …
RECOMMENDED I wasn't always afraid of flying. It happened somewhere in my late teens or early twenties. All of a sudden, a trip to the airport was accompanied by an intense sensation of d…
Monday “That’s Weird, Grandma: The Musical” at Barrel of Monkeys. A clever and funny, touching and poignant collection of songs based on the writings of CPS students.Â�…
RECOMMENDED Credit the Republican Party, with their nativist platform and wall building speeches, for making this very dark and violent "West Side Story" so relevant to 2016. Often cast in s…
RECOMMENDED Of the numerous advantages to mounting a revered classic, perhaps the most underappreciated is that it actually takes the play itself largely out of the equation, freeing up the …
RECOMMENDED One of life's greatest blessings is to give life to a tiny human whose eyes look upon you with admiration and whose arms innocently stretch toward you to lead them. That blessing…
Like a car attempting to start in deep winter, A. Rey Pamatmat's "after all the terrible things I do" stutters and shakes with internal conflict. Gears grind but never fully catch. When the …
RECOMMENDED In a not too distant future with the encroaching inauguration of the United State’s first female president, a quaint and idyllic queer family bonds with their do-gooder, bi…
Lucy Riner is nervous about the newest RE|Dance production. The creative partner of Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich, Riner is accustomed to Estanich taking the creative lead on a new d…
RECOMMENDED In some ways it's a great misfortune that Thornton Wilder wrote "Our Town." A great misfortune in the way that winning the lottery can be a great misfortune. In this case, it was…
By Sarah Conway "There's an interesting conversation taking place between the second floor and the basement," Jamil Khoury says, as Silk Road Rising’s founding artistic director discus…
RECOMMENDED Film noir is a stubborn genre, one that refuses to ever go completely out of style. From "Breathless" to "Inherent Vice," the best of modern noir tends to have at least one to…
RECOMMENDED It was over twenty years ago that Jonathan Larson's "Rent" first opened Off-Broadway in the New York Theatre Workshop. Like "Friends," it focused on the growing pains of young Ne…
RECOMMENDED Fate or free will? It's a dichotomy that can easily lead to insoluble clashes of conviction. In a time when we are pushed further to the margins of our own beliefs, acknowledging…
