4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
Too affectionate to be satire and too broad to be drama, this world premiere can't decide what it is or what, if anything, it believes.
Hedwig makes a triumphant return to close out the company's inaugural season in their new Evanston digs.
History has a history of repeating itself...
This new play from Steven Levenson sees the past and present as a continuum of conflict.
Michael John LaChiusa's musical could have been an empowering feminist adventure based on a true story. Instead it's a tepid moral dirge.
Co-written by ensemble members Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau, this world premiere is generous, idealistic, and irresistibly queer.
"We have no children and no relatives we trust with money, so at a certain age we were thinking about what [our] legacy is and our bequest to the future."
New York-based Brian Brooks writes a coda to his Harris Theater residency with a revisioning of his chaotic and complex "Terrain."
Inspired by James Joyce's "Ulysses," Steven Dietz's play is structured as a chord of simultaneity rather than a sequence of events.
A presidential party, punks versus Putin, a real cliff hanger, and more usher in this first month of (fingers crossed) summer.
This new play by George Brandt broadly broaches feminist rhetoric without committing to, or really understanding, the realities of being a woman.
An out-of-this-world premiere that is more small step than big leap.
Ten days of innovative dance, music and theater by local and international artists. Curator Julieanne Ehre's recommendation: see it all.
The unofficial "Year of Frankenstein" concludes with this world premiere adaptation that features Mary Shelley not just as author but player.
All our favorites for June.
Just say "yas" to these queens.
Sandra Delgado's megahit returns, bigger and better than ever.
"Ideation" meets "It's a Wonderful Life" in this world premiere from Kenneth Lin.
As the corpses pile up, the question arises of what exactly is irritating Ionesco: human folly or human existence itself?
Comedian Adam Strauss takes audiences on a psychedelic quest to cure his OCD.
Mickle Maher's new play investigates the balance between the alchemical and nihilistic forces alive in the theatrical arts.
The former resident choreographer of Hubbard Street Dance looks to new collaborations locally, nationally and abroad.
At more than three hours, this world premiere at adaptation of Saul Bellow's 1953 novel is epic in length if not quite in scope.
Learn about the history of Chicago dance in a new free exhibit at the Newberry Library. #sponsored
Tony Award winner and Chicago native David Cromer directs this gut-wrenchingly contemporary musical about love, loss and living on.
