4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
If any playwright in town deserves a break right about now, it would be Amy Crider.
"Queen For A Day" thrives on a kind of elegant chaos, where glamour and grief collide.
We don't know why the U.S. State Department decided that female Ethiopian acrobats were a threat to national security.
In many ways, the intricate murals, details and chandeliers of the Palace create its own kind of music box, ensconcing the stage for a beloved story to be told.
The hive takes one last sweet taste of honey.
If you have never seen "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or haven't seen it for a while, this is the one to see. And if you feel like you've seen it too many times"try again. APT's production is f…
Politics and anxiety drive Part One, subtitled "Millennium Approaches," and Part Two, "Perestroika," diverges into the supernatural and presents an original take on Hebrew theology. Seen tog…
Every once in a while, there is a show that blows all of your expectations out of the water, one that sets a new standard for a story. Not only does Goodman's "Color Purple" do both of those…
The Seldoms remount their hyper-saturated celebration of nature's beauty at a garden in full bloom.
Chicago theater gets cinematic this summer.
This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with "Twelfth Night." Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as "American as apple pie."
It's beautiful out! Put that phone down, go outside and see some dance.
Factory Theater has outdone itself with this world premiere production that not only moves, teaches and entertains us, but also challenges us to see our own times in the flickering light of …
The enchantment of "You Will Get Sick" is as inevitable as death and taxes.
"Pippin" was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies musical, "Pippin" is edgier and darker than the big 1940s musicals like…
"A Gallery of Dances" comprises short pieces and excerpts from Mariah Eastman dating back to her early work as a freelance choreographer, along with new short pieces commissioned from Mandy …
The eighty-minute play combines clowning, acrobatics, juggling and dance to tell a nuanced narrative.
"Iraq, But Funny" will join "The Arabian Nights" and "Metamorphoses" at the top of the Lookingglass canon. It is not to be missed.
A stand-in for not only the "Iliad" poet Homer but every other writer and translator who has stepped into the epic shoes of this tale, Timothy Edward Kane as the Poet must create a tour-de-f…
"Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues" is a warmhearted and funny play that celebrates both vaudeville and the possibility of friendship across cultural and generational divides.
Jeanine Tesori's opera "Blue" had its much-anticipated Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere last fall. Porchlight Music Theatre performed her Tony-Award-winning "Fun Home" last winter. And now Br…
"Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin" is a play concerned with what its title suggests: men bearing resemblance to one another and to a third, absent figure.
Lifeline's production takes on misinformation, a clueless media and the rejection of science"all worthy targets. But the death rays don't always land.
Is being the princess the worst job in England? Head over to Theo Ubique to find out.
In a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, "She Who Dared" tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation alongside Rosa Parks.
