4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
I wouldn't be the first critic to note that the real mystery of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" is not who killed the hateful houseguest (who seriously had it coming) at Monkswell Manor in…
RECOMMENDED Just once, I would like to invite someone along to see The House Theatre’s production of “The Nutcracker” without telling them what they were getting into. For …
RECOMMENDED Watching “Hellcab” is sort of like having your heavily tattooed ex-con uncle wish you a merry Christmas. His breath may stink of whiskey and cigarettes, and you can&#…
RECOMMENDED The collaboration between dancer Cristina Tadeo and sound designer Nicholas Davio openly discusses the invisible hand in the arts that dictates whose work is seen, where and b…
RECOMMENDED Novelist and playwright Elizabeth Berg ("Over the Hill and Through the Woods," "The Pull of the Moon"), 16th Street Artistic Associate and Chicago Dramatists Resident Playwright …
RECOMMENDED Let's begin by admitting that burlesque-type entertainment is not to everyone's taste. Then let's revisit the sage advice about trying everything twice to see if you like it, sin…
By Sharon Hoyer The Dance Theatre of Harlem was established in 1969, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first black principal dancer with the New Yor…
RECOMMENDED Wouldn't it be great if there were a book that provided all the dos and don'ts to loving the single life? Wouldn't it be nice to have a book about dating that everyone could read…
By Aaron Hunt With thirty-six Joseph Jefferson nominations and nine wins since Redtwist Theatre's first show in the Edgewater neighborhood opened in September 2003, it might seem that the co…
RECOMMENDED At the heart of City Lit's "Holmes and Watson" is the co-dependent relationship between the two titular characters. Holmes, to put it bluntly, can be a bit pedantic and his obses…
At the husband’s urging, a comfortably affluent couple (Robert Hardaway and Anji White) decide to rough it a bit for their holiday, and travel off the beaten path to strive for m…
In a set of extremely brief vignettes, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble relates the experiences of American women in the armed forces through Megan Carney's new play "Women At War."Â Based on t…
If you are a fan of the golden-age of musicals, if you haven't been able to give up your LP of the original cast recording of "Camelot," with Julie Andrews's soaring soprano seeming to posse…
RECOMMENDED The question posited by Jeff Talbott's "The Submission" is one of ownership. Who owns a story? And, whose tale is it to tell? Danny (played by Nicholas Bailey) has written a play…
RECOMMENDED More than anything, I think I appreciated "Out of Disorder's" sequencing. The show is actually a pairing of two solo shows: "Hunger Pains" by Christopher L. Moore and "I'm Differ…
By Sharon Hoyer Heidi Latsky is a New York-based modern choreographer who works with mixed-ability dancers to create pieces that investigate and celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of the in…
RECOMMENDED Someone at the money-making end of the performance rights for the Maury Yeston/Peter Stone musical "Titanic" has come up with more room in their pockets than seemed appropriate, …
RECOMMENDED There are those who may grouse at the remounting of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals that paved the way for J.R. Brown, Guettel and Sondhiem. But "South Pacific" won't go a…
The (figurative) curtain opens upon a tempest, as a boat off the Irish coast founders and sinks amid hysteria and confusion onshore. Sadly, that also describes Abby Spallen's 2009 play, whic…
by Raymond Rehayem Some folks wanna rock. Some folks wanna white Christmas. Dee Snider wants to spread rocking yuletide cheer. "Dee Snider’s Rock & Roll Christmas Tale" debuts this…
RECOMMENDED The indiscriminate momentum of violence drives the action and the banality of its coarse adherents provides the comedy in “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” The humor in …
RECOMMENDED Not all opera roles are created equal, and neither are all opera singers. But singers will be offered roles for which they might type physically, and may accept them for greater …
RECOMMENDED Director András Visky, in collaboration with designer Péter Szabó, roots this Samuel Beckett adaptation in our time and space through the visceral force of sound, design a…
I am loathe to call any art masturbatory. What art isn't, really? So in a wholly unforgivable act of self-satisfaction, I hereby deem Christopher Chen's script for "The Hundred Flowers Proje…
RECOMMENDED Director Linda Fortunato and the cast of BoHo Theatre's production of "Parade" know that the game is to tell a story. The trial of Leo Frank, an inveterate miscarriage of justice…
