3,951 stories from Newcity Stage
Lookingglass Theatre's spectacle-heavy play is nice to look at, but offers viewers too little to chew on.
Theo Ubique turns small-scale staging into a big-hearted musical escape, where director L. Walter Stearns immerses the audience in the world of the Man in Chair's imagination.
Matthew Ozawa's multidimensional staging of "Butterfly" that premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2023 is now being presented at his home company of Lyric Opera, where he is chief artistic direc…
Full-spectrum emotionally gratifying theater, signed and sealed in a love letter to pop culture.
The quick-witted host of the podcast "Never Not Funny," Pardo brings his improvised stand-up to Zanies Rosemont for a special matinee show.
Writers Theatre presents a tale about the struggle for liberty and love amidst political oppression.
John Reeger's witty new play set during the golden age of television follows a variety-show performer forced to choose between career success and political conscience.
The Goodman Theatre's production is an enchanting exploration of the self, by way of Oscar's life and his Dominican American family's fukú (curse) connected to the brutal dictatorship of …
The production moved its planned spring run to Chicago after Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center. It's a tonic in a troubled time.
Playwright Spencer Huffman's religious drama"and New Theatre Project's first production in a conventional theater space"boasts some excellent performances in a story that doesn't quite satis…
David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar's immersive theater project combines neuroscience experiments, art and storytelling.
There is clear urgency and a call to action in Carrie Hanson's piece, which is even more relevant now, six years after its making.
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's new production pays homage to comedies of the early twentieth century.
Factory Theater's overlong production has its moments, but it struggles to pull us into its sci-fi scenario.
The Athenaeum Center's audience included priests, nuns of various orders, and even the Pope's brother for this tale of a nineteenth-century French peasant girl who claimed to have visions of…
Chicago Opera Theater is staging the opera that premiered in Germany in 1933 before being banned by the Nazi party.
Paramount Theatre stages the Tony-winning musical that explores teen loneliness, social platforms and the lies we tell to survive.
Raven Theatre presents Caryl Churchill's 1982 play about women across time and space united by one reality.
A noisy start and a murky finish are among the choices that obscure "Miss Julie"'s timely relevance for a divided America.
American Blues Theater's intensely intimate revival shows that William Inge's 1950 family drama still packs a wallop.
The lead character in this U.S. premiere at Chicago Shakes is not the playwright, but his wife, Agnes. The play is about her union with the Bard and the family they create, as well as Will's…
What makes "Irish" work is that no matter how sad things may get, there is always an aura of celebration in the production.
Trinity founder Mark Howard challenges tap dancer Michelle Dorrance to "create a piece that's a rhythmic tour de force, that is difficult, that could not be performed by any other company in…
Broadway In Chicago presents this Tony Award-winning musical based on the classic book and film. The production is both a nostalgic trip for existing fans and a powerful introduction for a n…
The play is primarily a family drama, webbing together the relationships of the fabulously wealthy Seton family with those who pass in and out of their lives on New York City's Upper East Si…
