3,996 stories from Newcity Stage
"If you're not talking about something real and something substantive, the vast majority of comics are really not saying anything, because they don't have anything to say."
This new production of "Twelfth Night," directed by first-generation Jamaican American director Tyrone Phillips with a mostly Black cast and reggae music, captures the spirit, the language, …
Sondheim's first truly Sondheim-esque musical, Bobbie is turning thirty-five and single in a world of couples. The pressure is on from her married friends to make the plunge.
"Nyra's Dreams" is the story of Nyra, a naïve and effervescent young woman who leaps into different lives across time in a quest to achieve enlightenment so that her spirit may return to …
The monster in "The Night of the Hunter" is not a vampire, or a werewolf, or any kind of supernatural, European fiend. He is a true American type and scarier than any Halloween monster, beca…
London-based choreographer Akram Khan brings his eponymous company to the Harris Theater for the first time, with a near-future version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" set in a rewild…
Visually scintillating, musically varied and appealing, animated by the shamanic, shape-shifting energy of its griot/narrator, "AmericanMYTH: Crossroads" has a hell of a lot going for it: a …
A lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.
Zanies comedy club now offers the "Ultimate Bucket List Experience," which gives funny dreamers the chance to create a killer act while being mentored by a top comic, and perform it in a rea…
Hyland's "Seagulls" is a Chekovian philosophical reflection on self and society, but with a twenty-first-century twist, an experience that can be compared to no other.
A gorgeous presentation of a Sondheim classic.
This dance-driven melodic fable of a mysterious village in the Scottish highlands that appears once a century is pure enchantment, as the current Music Theater Works production reminds us.
Clear your first two weekends: November is front-loaded with dance from mixed-rep to immersive storytelling.
The talented cast sells every song and bawdy joke for all they're worth, and you'll have a good, silly time.
Aszure Barton, who embarks this season on a three-year stint as resident choreographer for Hubbard Street, is reviving "return to patience," a piece she created in 2015 for students at the J…
Chicago's reputation for comedy has primarily been rooted in having the best improv scene on the planet. But the city has also spawned a rich stand-up history, and the first-ever 312 Comedy …
"Household Spirits" is a ghoulishly good show, with witty one liners, relatable character development and a creepy twist ending.
The team behind "Tambo and Bones" want you to squirm. They want you to feel pain and sorrow and woe"and laugh at the same time.
Molly Shanahan and Mad Shak know that when she says "Bodies are so much more than what is visually perceived," she means not only that the vast interior world of individual experience is hid…
A taut psychological thriller that waits until the very end before releasing its tension.
Paramount Theatre's 2023-2024 BOLD Series continues with this honest piece of theater that searches for the humanity in America's founding document.
Louis Armstrong completely filled the world he lived in. He was a one-of-a-kind singer and trumpet player. But it was his life as a cultural star, whose story tracks big movements of the twe…
For "S45," Michelle Kranicke and Paige Cunningham-Caldarella invited three choreographers to join them in taking a section of Merce Cunningham's "Suite for Five" as a jumping off point for a…
Appropriate for all ages, "Lucha Teotl" grabs you from the start and makes you never want to tap out!Â
Resurrection Mary, the Iroquois Theatre fire ghosts, local lore galore. And like Halloween itself, some real chills are part of the fun.
