4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
RECOMMENDED "Rosas danst Rosas" is a dance out of time. Even though Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created it thirty years ago at the tender age of twenty-four, the quietly captivating piece …
Think of a suburban neighborhood " the kind that is mostly quiet, where neighbors all know each other by name and often greet each other from day to day, help each other with errands and the…
RECOMMENDED More than 60 years after its Broadway debut, Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" continues to stand the test of time. This poignant story, which centers on a man grappling with the cho…
RECOMMENDED The Gift might be the place I would take an out-of-towner in order to describe the phenomenon of Chicago storefront theater. The lobby is about the size of a modest walk-in close…
RECOMMENDED When I tell you that the House Theatre's newest show is a theatrical adaptation of "Moby Dick" that is also about a theater company attempting to put on a theatrical adaptation o…
By Sean Kelley In the world of American acting, fame and fortune are to be found on the coasts in Los Angeles and New York. However, many of America's most successful actors and comedians co…
RECOMMENDED As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago decades ago, a friend suggested I take a class called “The Political Plays and Prefaces of George Bernard Shaw” becau…
RECOMMENDED At a point early on in Noah Haidle's moving morality/mortality tale, troubled father Daniel (a world-weary Eric Slater, effectively straddling inner sadness and external buoyancy…
RECOMMENDED Our country's highest-profile ballet company returns to the Auditorium Theatre with a performance of works by American choreographers from the American century. Two pieces by Twy…
RECOMMENDED "The Magic Flute" is one of those indelible works of art. Even people who do not like opera will perk up when you mention it's being performed. Its musical refrains such as the Q…
RECOMMENDED “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” provide wonderful delight to readers across generations and endless inspiration to artists across disciplines. Right now (this is s…
RECOMMENDED Disheveled, run-down and struggling for work, aging Tommy (portrayed with a lived-in sort of grace by Francis Guinan) lives in a disheveled, run-down room in his uncle's a…
RECOMMENDED In the couple of years since I saw "The World of Extreme Happiness" as part of Goodman’s New Stages festival, the humor has become a little sharper, the production has grow…
RECOMMENDED Oh this was barely bearable until everyone lost their bearings at the end. Strong finish, I mean"pushes all my misgivings about the show so far to the fore that it transcends the…
RECOMMENDED The main issue one encounters when judging a musical based on the "Evil Dead" series of movies is how to pull it off without Bruce Campbell. The beloved B-movie actor anchors the…
RECOMMENDED Kurt Weill's career, like this show, had two very distinct acts: the first superb, the second not so much. Act I was set in Weimar Germany in the late 1920s, where the conservato…
RECOMMENDED What does it mean to be "let down easy?" When put in the context of being "let down easy" in terms of healthcare, does that idea change? One might interpret the saying to mean wh…
RECOMMENDED As I walked into the theater and was greeted by the set for "Mercy Strain" I had to smile to myself. The show has been advertised as a hit at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, …
The image one usually comes away with from a production of "King Lear" is that of the aged king, stripped down to his skivvies and raging against the elements. But one comes away from Chicag…
RECOMMENDED In a "Poem About My Rights" June Jordan pens these words, "Wrong is not my name/ My name is my own my own my own/and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this/ but I …
RECOMMENDED In the Midwest Premiere of "Rest" by 2014 MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient Samuel D. Hunter a character expresses his disdain for jig-saw puzzles. He professes he enjoyed them …
RECOMMENDED Before Caitlin Parrish began to write for television's "Emily Owens, M.D." and "Under the Dome," she was an award-winning playwright. With director Erica Weiss at the helm, Parri…
RECOMMENDED To whet audience appetites for the fall season, the Joffrey presents a special one-weekend amuse of short narrative ballets. Two pieces are from the Joffrey rep: Antony Tudor's 1…
RECOMMENDED Shakespeare's play of the same name came to be called "The Bard's Opera" because producers would schedule the widely popular piece when revenues were low, giving the players reas…
Paragraph One. Playwright Lucas Hnath’s having a Chicago moment, with his “Isaac’s Eye” in simultaneous production at Writers Theatre this fall. “Death Tax̶…
