3,996 stories from Newcity Stage
Family, immigration and the American dream.
In the highly competitive world of show business, it can be hard to find true friends. But comic Chris Franjola was one of the lucky ones, becoming best buddies with rising star Chelsea Hand…
We watch Scrooge go through his familiar redemptive and restorative ritual with renewed interest.
Theater and comedy highlights for December.
Audiences will see an overall familiar "Nutcracker" ballet, which also includes some contemporary takes and welcome updates. Nine choreographers contribute to the updated HPSD rendition.
When it comes to showing heart, especially in the power ballads and anthems, this show is stirring.
"The shows are so competitive and physical that they're as close to sports as you can get with improv."
"Love Actually?" shoots at the king of rom-com Christmas films and kills it.
It's that time again. This holiday season offers up more family-friendly ballet than you can shake a Nutcracker at.
"Her Honor Jane Byrne," is a powerful new play written and directed by J. Nicole Brooks, which recently reopened on the Lookingglass stage.
The longtime Chicago favorite is heading back into town to perform Thanksgiving weekend at Zanies, the club that gave him his first big breaks.
The audience is the fly on the wall of a dingy Oklahoma hotel room where Agnes White is taking refuge from her recently released, abusive ex-husband Jerry.
It's far too early to know if this is one for the ages, but no doubt this is the most important musical of our times, drawing from American history to depict the kind of racial harmony we st…
This is likely to be the most fun you'll have in a Chicago theater this season.
List's influences and favorites include a who's who of 1980s comedy legends.
With the programming of the first Spanish-language opera to appear on the main stage, the company continues its climb toward greater inclusivity, the first with a Spanish libretto to be comm…
The show is a small miracle, surviving four decades and its corn-poney Southern-ish roots and emerging largely free of the pre-woke landmines rife in musical theater of "Pump Boys'" vintage …
The split bill between Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and RE|Dance Group is a gentle reminder of what's been missing from our storytelling diets.
This is powerful, heartbreaking theater.
Lolli has managed to turn magic moments into a career in which he has written extensively for superstar Katt Williams and cult favorite Eddie Pepitone.
Directors Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky took the piece in a decidedly high-tech angle, using animation and film.
A big month in pre-Broadway and opera, plus the return of Steppenwolf and Lookingglass.
"I'm feeling like: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue," Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell tells me when I ask how she approached curating "Re/turn," running November …
Heidi, played with vigor in this production by Cassie Beck, is a fifteen-year-old student debating the Constitution in hopes of an American Legion scholarship.
For a comic who got his start at the relatively late age of thirty-eight, Munk has made quite a splash in just over a decade on the national scene.
