4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
RECOMMENDED There’s a lovely moment partway through the second act of Adam Pasen’s very funny, big-hearted play “Badfic Love” wherein ex-jock and current law student …
RECOMMENDED In this day and age, people are often defined publicly by what they put forth through electronic means of communication. Mickle Maher's play "Song About Himself" is an exploratio…
RECOMMENDED The customer is always right. Even when they're wrong. So goes the logic of the service industry, a labor market whose sole purpose is to chew up disposable, well-meaning persons…
RECOMMENDED The bygone era of jukebox music still has something that keeps crowds reveling in nostalgia and "Chicago Dreams" at MCL has a skilled comedic cast that, with a little audience pa…
The slow spread of ticket discounts for twenty-somethings and the barely concealed air of desperation regarding the median age of theater audiences all add up to what a polite Midwestern art…
RECOMMENDED There is more than one lens through which to experience Tom Stoppard's "Travesties:" One can know everything there is to know about James Joyce, Lenin, Dadaist Tristan Tzara and …
Friends are the opposite of Matthew McConnaughey's beloved "high school girls." You keep getting older, and they keep getting older too. You change, they change. Eventually you might still b…
RECOMMENDED The most famous quote from famous Chicago muckracker Upton Sinclair about his groundbreaking novel "The Jungle" is the following: "I aimed at the public’s heart, and by acc…
RECOMMENDED Since the whole God thing is a joke anyway, it makes all the sense in the world to throw some gnarly guitar riffs at the New Testament and call it a musical. Director Fred Anzevi…
RECOMMENDED The man in front of you is not from here. He's a traveler from a foreign land. In fact "Traveler" is the only name by which he is identified. And as a person not from here he has…
RECOMMENDED I truly wonder what would prompt a director to choose David Hirson’s “La Bête” as his or her next project to tackle. It is a play in the style of Moliere, wi…
RECOMMENDED In Court Theatre's world premiere of "The Good Book" we follow the lives of Miriam (Hollis Resnik) and Connor (Alex Weisman) as they struggle with their personal faith. Miriam, w…
RECOMMENDED The story of Anne Frank, a budding young Jewish woman entrapped by design, hidden in an Amsterdam attic where she bravely, almost joyously awaited what she felt certain would be …
The old maxim says, “You can’t go home again.” Which is of course not true. It’s a lying old maxim, a blanket statement that ignores an entire class of people for who…
RECOMMENDED Deborah Zoe Laufer's existential comedy "End Days" sounds like a tongue-in-cheek choice for the Windy City Playhouse's launch of its inaugural season. If their opening perf…
RECOMMENDED The evening begins in an explosion of noise. From the moment the audience enters, tramps and junkies and nightwalkers prowl around the space, almost like they're protecting it fr…
RECOMMENDED Paramount Theatre certainly knows its way around big Broadway musicals. From "Cats" to "Miss Saigon" to "Fiddler on the Roof," their Broadway Series has consistently offered …
RECOMMENDED The title of Kate Walbert's "Genius""now receiving its world premiere at the Profiles Theatre"refers to the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grants"the prospect of a MacArthur pri…
RECOMMENDED John Patrick Shanley's newest play is the tale of Anthony Reilly, a man who believes himself to have no value to anyone else, a man who has dedicated his life to a farm that his …
Bursting with imagination, bereft of dynamic narrative, this retelling of the Joan of Arc story is a dazzling mess of a play, more first draft than finished work. Playwright Robert Stewart n…
Hanna Brictson grew up in River North Dance Chicago, first as a student, starting at the age of twelve, then as a company member straight out of high school, eventually working her way up…
By Zach Freeman There are very few theatrical venues in the world that can boast anything like the history, cachet and all-around tourist-centric sexiness of Moulin Rouge, now celebrating it…
RECOMMENDED I think August Wilson's play scripts might do more heavy lifting than those of any other American playwright. And what I mean by that is that if you stay true to them and treat t…
By Alex Huntsberger Normally when a new theater company opens in Chicago it is cause for little fanfare. Small storefront companies come and go with the transience of a celebrity parody t…
RECOMMENDED Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, inspired by her upbringing in an African-American neighborhood of Kansas City, founded her all-female company to give voice to the disenfranchised, partic…
