4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
RECOMMENDED The players are paired: single mom and blind date, teen daughter and her best boy buddy she wishes were more, and a comfortable middle-class husband and wife hoping to become ado…
Working in a city like Chicago, especially downtown, the travel to work is filled with the homeless. The man shaking his paper cup, greeting those who get off the train. The woman with the d…
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street closes out their season on the big screen, with a Friday night simulcast to a forty-foot LED screen in Millennium Park. The free seats may be some of the best ones…
RECOMMENDED With a double bill of Viktor Ullmann's "The Emperor of Atlantis" and Carl Orff's "The Clever One""two one-act pieces beautifully matched, with stories revolving around misguided …
Looking for love can be a daunting task. With scores of social media and internet dating sites to choose from, most people find it easy to create a profile and start a conversation with some…
When it comes to piano cabaret, I'm spoiled; I've attended the last several years of Justin Hayford's informative, charming cabaret series at Davenport's. Hayford's a compelling storyteller …
RECOMMENDED TVs are ugly and cold and the stage is full of them – the tube type to be specific, positioned where a VJ would want them and rigged as needed. The title treatment on the p…
By Aaron Hunt "Many mumbling mice, Are making merry music in the moonlight, Mighty nice," sing six fresh-faced, eager-eyed young performers in unison, up the scale and then back down. David …
RECOMMENDED Book writer of Writers Theatre's new world premiere musical "Days Like Today" Laura Eason says of playwright Charles L. Mee's work, from which "Days" borrows and burnishes, "It i…
The essence of pop music is that it demands nothing of us at all. It just reminds us of what every other pop song has already told us, permeating the airwaves and synapses with the honeyed p…
RECOMMENDED Nothing says summer quite like a good old-fashioned sweaty dance party. And when it comes to dance music, the roots of Chicago house run deep, building bridges across culture and…
RECOMMENDED Modernist composer Charles Ives may be one of the most famous unknown composers in American music. Largely ignored during his lifetime, Ives' innovative work continues to influen…
RECOMMENDED Just an upward glance and a bird on a wing away from Redmoon's vast Pilsen warehouse space there's a building emblazoned with the graffiti "Memories Are Sacred." While Shakespear…
RECOMMENDED Artistic Director Charles Newell's fine production affords us the opportunity to reexamine a twenty-six-year-old play that shocked and riveted audiences and critics alike with a …
RECOMMENDED There is a poignant moment in Shattered Globe Theatre's production of Sally Nemeth's "Mill Fire." Three widows pour the ashes of their dead husbands onto a bed, while recounting …
Mixed marriages are never easy … especially between nerdy young shop clerks and millennia-old, mystical serpent spirits in human guise. That's one of the major takeaways of writer/director…
RECOMMENDED The kid's a natural. Of course, the kid's a grown man and what seems to come so naturally is his onstage embodiment of his famed father, two time Academy Award-winner Jack Lemmon…
RECOMMENDED Celebrating their sixtieth anniversary, the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Chicago with a dazzling mix of three repertory pieces. “Black Tuesday” is a theatr…
Just a few blocks from I Sachs Sons shoe repair on Roosevelt, Provision Theater Company coincidentally presents a contemporized take on the biblical tale of Isaac's son Jacob and his struggl…
RECOMMENDED Before writing his breakout hit, “The Glass Menagerie,” in 1944, Tennessee Williams also worked on another memory play, one that he wouldn't finish until 1977. “…
RECOMMENDED The aptly named Big Dance Theater constructs rich, layered performances with gusto, pulling together disparate elements into three-dimensional, moving collages. Man in a Case tel…
RECOMMENDED In Margaret Edson's "Wit," Dr. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., an English professor whose work focuses on the Holy Sonnets of poet, satirist, lawyer and cleric John Donne, falls prey to s…
RECOMMENDED "You can't keep cancer a secret forever, can you?" In the emotionally and factually fat exposition scene that begins Neil Simon's autobiographical play "Lost in Yonkers," a fathe…
Everyone’s got to eat, right? But not everyone has a healthy relationship with food. In fact, it’s estimated that over twenty million Americans are affected by an eating disorder…
By Raymond Rehayem American Theater Company's artistic director PJ Paparelli has spearheaded a revival of "Hair" that at times just might make yours stand on end. "If you've never seen 'Hair…
