3,931 stories from Newcity Stage
April musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
April features ABT and an array of leading Chicago companies in full bloom.
For the last play he programmed as Goodman's artistic director, Falls chose a masterpiece about change and endings"Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."
"Proximity"'s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences ae…
The history of medical experimentation on Black Americans is historically one of the most diabolical acts committed. This history of inhuman treatment is explored in "How Blood Go."
Yo was one of the earliest survivors of COVID, and the experience made him stronger than ever.
British mathematician Alan Turing, who is the father of computer science, was primarily publicly remembered for being convicted of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts and was subject to ch…
The Neo-Futurists transform the theater into a corporate board room, with Windows98-style PowerPoint presentations, frantic focus groups and an overall eerie ambience. Four corporate shills …
There's nothing "nice" about "Threepenny," a no-holds-barred assault on every aspect of bourgeois existence, from religion to marriage and family to the military to law and order.
"What would it feel like if we did this every day, working with your best friend, laughing and having fun and seeing it as a joy?"
We are reminded, subtly, that we too are made up of the stuff of those who have loved us. Whether we like it or not there are characteristics and tendencies we each carry within ourselves ta…
A jukebox musical that tells the story of Tina Turner, one of the most powerful and unique performers to take a stage.
One of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, "The Comedy of Errors" is sublimely ridiculous.
There are lies told for art and lies told for power. In art, a lie (known as a story), can show what's true. In politics, lies oppress. This play reveals hard truths about fascism's destruct…
Music Theater Works' production of "Avenue Q" is delightful.
Sharon is likely the hottest American director in opera right now. The world premiere of "Proximity: A trio of new American operas" is being dubbed Sharon's "Lyric Opera main-stage debut" an…
This Saturday, Sleeping Village will become a petri dish for the femme and queer-led performance extravaganza the Fly Honey Show. In the lab will be three mad geniuses of party chemistry.
J'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
For this show, the emphasis is on Annie seeking to be loved and accepted and that template is well in place in the new touring production currently playing.
What makes a tribute show work? Watch "Reasons" and learn while swaying, clapping, cheering and ultimately rising to your feet to dance and sing.
Flannery will be one of six comics taking the stage for the "Shamrock Shenanigans" show at the Den Theatre, as part of a lineup of Irish comics detailing their unique life experiences as par…
Backed by a seven-piece band, John-Mark McGaha performs in a concert filled with stories and music.
The ten companies in the new edition of the CBDLP will perform March 25 and 26 in a program entitled "Sans Pareil," celebrating the past and the present of the city.
The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968.
"1776" took our Founding Fathers off their pedestals and revealed them as clay-footed human beings who passionately squabbled over something as fundamental as American independence. Director…
