4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
RECOMMENDED “Far From Heaven,” the acclaimed 2002 film starring the translucent Julianne Moore, was penned and directed by Todd Haynes and shot using the carefully composed color…
RECOMMENDED Can anyone listen to the uprush of that first glorious phrase in “Der Rosenkavalier” without getting goose flesh? Without feeling a joy so intense it puts one's heart…
La Voix Humaine RECOMMENDED I don't think I was the only one who observed, immediately after the curtain went up Saturday night on the first of two operas at the Harris Theater, that it was …
RECOMMENDED Iggy Pop. Tom Waits. Two musicians whose only direct connection is Jim Jarmusch's cult classic "Coffee and Cigarettes." And yet they have plenty in common as icons of creativity …
By Michael Workman Jessica Marasa has collaborated with the leading dance improvisors in Chicago for the last ten years. Starting in February, she will host a work-in-progress series at L…
"The Glass Menagerie" comes with its own set of built-in values. Mounting it is like renting a vintage sports car. It is a luxurious, time-tested play that is bound to garner attention wheth…
This month, the New York-based Driscoll brings an audience-integrative approach that would have had Brecht guffawing with delight to the MCA Stage. Typically blown past in the New York press…
RECOMMENDED It’s hard to say anything about anything especially if you’re trying to say something without offending anyone. Taking aim at the media machine that filters out crazy…
RECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage"three pieces by contemporary choreographers"but also the music…
RECOMMENDED A junk shop: an assemblage of bric-a-brac, objects not all broken but beyond their first use"typewriters, two-headed ceramic aliens and toasters as well as other kitsch and fixer…
RECOMMENDED There are two words that can make almost any regular theatergoer flinch: audience participation. The irony is unmistakable. In an art form that lives and dies on vulnerability, o…
RECOMMENDED Obese. Plus size. Thick. Heavy. Big boned. Curvy. Overweight. Fat. These are some of the politer words applied to people with bodies that don’t fit into our culture’s…
Goodman Theatre's Latino Festival began in 2003 as a way to highlight the often-silenced voices of Latinos in theater. This year, the now-biennial event is a "Celebration of Latina/o Artists…
By Aaron Hunt Lyric has announced its electric, eclectic 2016/17 season. If you're already an operagoer, this is a major opportunity to put seldom-heard notches in your production belt. If n…
The late Horton Foote's "The Old Friends" is a play about people getting what they want. Whether jewels, booze or attention, any deprivation is fleeting. As a criticism of the privileged cla…
Waking up and turning on the news, we see the outrage over police killings and state terrorism of the black population. We do not see the mass media addressing the more insidious ways system…
RECOMMENDED Memory is dampened by medical advances, giving succor to those who want to believe AIDS is now a manageable disease. With a generation erased, who is left to remember and tell th…
RECOMMENDED As this sprightly new musical opens, Arthur Conan Doyle has just committed what his myriad readers see as the ultimate crime: killing off iconic super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes. "He…
RECOMMENDED You’d expect to find more examples of Information Art as text printouts or video, not incorporated into dance"but that’s precisely the conceptual background agains…
If you ever wondered what "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" would look like as a Greek tragedy, this is your chance to find out. Set in post-housing bubble collapse California, Dan LeFran…
By Irene Hsiao When Gus Giordano founded his company in 1963, jazz dance was something that fell between vaudeville, social dance and street performance, an ephemeral form that wasn't yet th…
There were times during the world premiere of "Another Word for Beauty" that I had to remind myself where I was. Literally, not in the transcendent sense. This stilted and suffocatingly u…
RECOMMENDED "Nabucco" established Verdi's preeminence as an operatic composer not only with its winding melodies and passionate declamations but because it struck a nerve with a populace emb…
Despite levying criticisms at both sides of the capitalist/socialist divide, Eugene O'Neill’s 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" teems with Marxist zeal. One wonders what O'Neill's anti-hero…
RECOMMENDED For some people it's about control. For others, simple pleasure. Many find it a chore though they'd rather not admit it. But we all do it. Even Republicans. Especially Republican…
