3,996 stories from Newcity Stage
A vibrant month in Chicago theater with all the major stages coming back to life, almost at once.
The showcase concert by the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project marks the beginning of greater visibility and financial support for Black dance companies in Chicago.
The Black Ensemble Theater presents a celebration of the life and times of Langston Hughes.
Will Allan's "Campaigns, Inc." is an origin story of modern political mendacity, found in the 1934 governor's race between the incumbent buffoon Frank Merriam and the visionary progressive U…
Paramount Theatre stages an intimate production of the Tony award-winning musical "Fun Home."
On top of being a killer stand-up, Kilmartin is a comedian who seems comfortable in all comedic spaces, having been a late night writer for Conan for a decade.
Early in the first act of "The Devil Wears Prada,The Musical," Andy, a frumpy self-important recent college grad, is up for a job as a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (a thinly veiled…
CDC celebrates two decades of making high-energy performances that blend hip hop, contemporary dance and storytelling. "Booms Day" follows the adventures of a young girl and her boombox thro…
A full-time professional barber up until a few years back, but his comedy career took off.
What a delight it is to sit on the grass and watch this talented, diverse troupe of actors perform one of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible comedies.
August stages are filled with famous people, both living and dead.
Summer abounds with free and family-friendly dance.
With a universal appeal, it speaks to "class" as a through line in the bigger American story.
The fiftieth anniversary tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" takes very seriously the notion that the work belongs to the Passion genre.
At the same time that his comedy was resonating on the South Side, he was picking up paid gigs on the North Side as well.
Well cast and imaginatively staged by adapter/director Kevin Theis, Oak Park Theatre Festival's telling of "The Winter's Tale" is a consistently engaging and occasionally enthralling way to …
Before the two lovers met in person, they knew each other only through letters traded during the final two harrowing years of World War II.
"It's been really moving and important and central to all of us that at the heart of 'The Devil Wears Prada' is a young person trying to figure out how to live."
"Perforated Play" tells the story of three people who find themselves impaled together on the same iron pole due to an unseen accident.
Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman's intimate Owen Theatre.
Many of our city's theatrical leaders agree that Chicago is at the forefront of defining the future of the American theater.
The "Inside/Out" showcases bring audiences into an intimate setting and allowing artists to share work "at a vulnerable juncture" in the process of creation.
"Antigone" is perhaps the oldest depiction we have of civil disobedience, focusing on the tension between the state and the individual conscience.
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
