4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
RECOMMENDED The character of Medea haunted Greek culture like a nightmare, embodying patriarchal anxiety and guilt. It's a fitting subject for Dream Theatre Company's resident playwright Jer…
By Raymond Rehayem Nope, Mary-Arrchie artistic director Richard Cotovsky doesn't spend three days non-stop in character as the late political prankster for whom his long-running theater fest…
RECOMMENDED It's Audrey (played by the willowy Cora Vander Broek), Hank Williams’ put-upon first wife, who best sums up her husband's fatal contradictions: "You wear a $500 custom suit…
RECOMMENDED The fourth and final season of critically acclaimed dance-and-music-improv mashup PRODUCE is a must-see. Hosts Lauren Warnecke, dancer, writer and educator behind Art Intercepts,…
RECOMMENDED As the saying goes, truth is often stranger than fiction. When it comes to the world of religion, the line between the two (truth and fiction) becomes blurrier and blurrier. And …
This Hitchcock-themed improv show features not one but two drinking games happening simultaneously. The first is the more familiar audience drinking game. In this case you're asked to drink …
RECOMMENDED The long-distance choreographic team of Lucy Vurusic-Riner and Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich have produced, over the last five years, a body of work that is notably calm and i…
By Raymond Rehayem "We're telling the real story… we see this stuff. We’re telling the grown-ups what’s really happening, the adults don’t really know. That’s becau…
RECOMMENDED Samuel Beckett was a genius, one of the great talents of the 20th Century like Ernie Kovacs or Thelonious Monk. So when a theater company does a fine job staging some Beckett, wh…
RECOMMENDED The only downside to Chicago Human Rhythm Project's wrap-up performances of their annual Rhythm World festival is trying to decide which show to attend. The series of showcases a…
RECOMMENDED You learn a lot about the level of commitment of a company of actors"to say nothing of the commitment of the audience enjoying them"when both are willing to engage in the rain be…
RECOMMENDED When Mary Wilson of the Supremes came through town late last fall, she recalled that the Supremes had no less than seven flops before catching on while another Detroit all-female…
RECOMMENDED Usually when you hear someone use the phrase "the universality of the human experience" it's a load of hooey. People use it to justify why their production of "Timon of Athens" s…
RECOMMENDED As I sat watching "Intimate Apparel" presented by Eclipse Theatre Company, the words of renowned Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie echoed in my mind: "Because I am female,…
RECOMMENDED Some of the nicer things in life really are free, such as Shakespeare served al fresco on a summer evening by the talented and community-minded Midsommer Flight theater collectiv…
"Stoop Time," a new play staged by You&Me Productions, opens up with friends Jo (Angela Bullard) and Nora (Joni Arredia) having drinks, sharing laughs and recounting stories on Jo's stoo…
RECOMMENDED This summer Chicago audiences are given another chance to see "Principal Principle," a timely tale examining the potential polarizing effects of assigning corporate data-gatherin…
By Sharon Hoyer For dancers, summer is a season of creative experimentation and growth, with ample opportunities to participate in residencies and intensive classes both in the city and with…
RECOMMENDED "O these men, these men!" sighs Desdemona (played by Brittany Burch), who is soon to be murdered by her jealous husband, Othello. She is confiding her bafflement to her friend Em…
RECOMMENDED It's been thirty years since Ena Lamont Stewart's "Men Should Weep" was last produced in the USA and I'd wager a rampant run of stateside revivals is unlikely. It's steeped in a …
RECOMMENDED Everyone has an opinion about guns. And everyone has a "gun story." Whether it's tragic, a tale of survival or just something from the news, everyone has a story that deals with …
RECOMMENDED With the way that the phrase polyamory has been tossed around over the last few years you would think that modern social psychologists invented the concept. And according to a fl…
RECOMMENDED This summer marks the second year of a three-year collaboration between Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and the South Africa-based Flatfoot Dance Company, entitled the JOMBA! Initiat…
By Raymond Rehayem When a sex comedy by a highly lauded playwright hits the Chicago stage, I get the call from Newcity to devise the sort of feature you just started reading. Seems this pape…
Lacking the spark to start even the most readily extinguishable blaze, "A Small Fire" is monochromatically akin to a handful of ash. The direction from Joanie Shultz is sharp, the sound desi…
