3,997 stories from Newcity Stage
Ballet, Irish Dance, Modern, Contemporary, Tap: five more reasons to get out of the house this February.
Directed by Wardell Julius Clark, Kevin Artigue's play speaks truth to power in an age when power rarely speaks the truth.
IF you plan to see this musical THEN you might want to prepare for a nonsensical (and misogynistic) vision of so-called female empowerment.
Mara Nelson-Greenberg's play sneaks in themes of emotional manipulation, micro-aggression and male privilege to an audience that's busy laughing.
An evening of toe-tapping bliss that delivers a commendation worthy of the Duke's talent.
Netherlands-based ieke Trinks sent an international call to respond to Joseph Ravens' collection. Their responses open DFBRL8R's tenth anniversary season.
Ligia Lewis' lush nightmare finds the relationship between authority, willful resistance and punishment a source of terror.
Isaac Gomez's latest play centers confidently and lovingly on the generational effects of colonialism and masculinity.
Death, violence, racism, familial dysfunction and musical theater this month. Strap in, folks!
The world premiere of Meghan Brown's play seems less a futurist fantasy than a parable of life in a failed state turned patriarchal prison-house.
The characters in Sean Graney's production of Agatha Christie's delicious whodunit slowly come undone like so much hard candy.
This new musical, with a book by Brett Neveu and songs by Jason Narducy, follows a day-in-the-life of a teenage punk band, inspired by Narducy's adolescence.
If our country's politics is exhausting you with its complexity, this production offers the opportunity to consider some of the same themes in a gentler rhythm.
This production of Caryl Churchill's 1982 play attempts to examine the present by looking to the past.
Kristine Thatcher's biographical drama on Barbara Jordan resurfaces at a crucial juncture in American history.
Playwright C.A. Johnson's world of civil war, bombs, looting, gangs and starvation is hardly fictional. It is practically here.
This spooky meta musical from Kyle Jarrow ("SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical") and Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening") cares more than it scares.
A slow and solitary, meditative musing on human nature. And fish.
Putting the theme of "motherhood" through the dramatic wringer, András Visky's play becomes less a distillation than a reduction.
Start your New Year right with these provocative premieres.
Filament kindly offers a theatrical experience designed to bring the inner child out of any tired and overworked adult.
A glimpse of that which keeps our spirits and earthly substances nourished.
To the long-awaited revenant and lifelong resident alike, thank you for giving Chicago its most meaningful epithet of all: home
"What I know for sure, is that I am walking in my calling, living in my purpose, and growing as a human being through my art."
Aura CuriAtlas blends dance and acrobatics to tell stories without words, from everyday situations to abstract flights of fancy.
