3,996 stories from Newcity Stage
"It's interesting, we started conversations before the pandemic about what it might look like to create one big festival with residents and fellows presenting together," Stephanie Pacheco, L…
Yoshinojo Fujima and puppeteers Tom Lee and Ryugyoku Nishikawa each developed separate performances based on a popular classic Kabuki scene of young heartache, focusing on what Fujima calls …
May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
The company's season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
Veteran Hollywood actor Eric Roberts and rising star Harsh J. Gagoomal explore the roles of oppressor and victim in this world premier online production by Hammaad Chaudry.
"In the essence of contemporary dance and contemporary meaning, now, there are a lot of voices out there that maybe we haven't explored. There are choreographers who haven't had the opportun…
Chicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
Vivian J.O. Barnes' prescient play is a mediation on the emotional toil Black women face when taking up positions of power in large, static institutions.
This new short dance film serves as a gentle reminder that magic can still happen, even during a year in quarantine.
Denise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
March roars in with virtual one-on-one plays, an alt dance festival and a gradual return to in-person performance.
Thanks to the ingenuity of Chicago's dance community through a lean ten years and a hellish ten months, Chicago remains, and will remain a mecca for dance.
There is a clear throughline for staging Nick Payne's play about the possibility of universes existing outside our own during this terrifying moment. But in this production, that line is mud…
Held for the first time since 2019, "Bechdel Fest 8: Realign" offers eight new plays featuring femme, female-identifying, non-binary, trans and genderqueer narratives.
Live readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
Loevner foresees the demise of many performing arts organizations as the effect of the pandemic plays out.
Ike Holter's new work is razor sharp and faster than a speeding bullet while maintaining a grace and a lightness that balances the weight of the message.
Performances that are thoughtful and specific, brimming with heart, truth and point-of-view.
A new production reflects on the life of the twentieth-century Jewish scholar and activist who was moved by faith to confront injustice.
Nelson Diaz-Marcano's new play illustrates the complexity of individual perspectives and that unification is no simple task.
The company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
A smorgasbord of workshops, residencies and online performances dispatched Chicago-based dance artists to the Dance Center's national and international audience while deepening the connectio…
December theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
Theater educator Alyssa Oltmanns believes her student production of a play including LGBTQ issues was cancelled for censorship reasons.
