4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
Not much ado about nothing.
Hyperbole be damned, the latest from Lauren Yee may just be the best show of the year.
Synapse's program provides essential resources, professional development and mentorship to unique artists at a crucial moment along their artistic path.
Ike Holter's epic saga concludes with a showdown that pits friends, neighbors and family against each other.
A marvelous and magical world premiere that's intermittently too self-aware for its own good.
Is Joshua Harmon's new play a deliberate provocation to progressives or a hypocritical use of his platform? Yes.
This world premiere is a modern-day vision of hell that outstrips the imaginings of Dante or Hieronymus Bosch. It's also a comedy.
This two-hander lays bare the bonds of siblings, forged in the fire of parental expectations.
A mixed-repertoire bill from three Israeli choreographers does not disappoint.
Veteran actor Joe Foust tactfully navigates the emotional landscape of this powerful one-man show about an extraordinary boy and the town that knew him.
Chicago dance month is packed with performances from companies near and far.
This explosive political drama reflects the all-too-recent past as well as our current political moment.
Part workplace social comedy, part hyperactive fever dream, this world premiere has plenty to sip on.
Chicago is one of the great global centers of dance.
A rock 'n' roll comedy from the preeminent meta scribe of our time, the conclusion of an epic saga, a wild love story, and more opening this month across our city's many stages.
This aesthetically adventurous adaptation follows many tributaries before arriving at its destination.
How to learn to stop worrying and love the lettuce.
Beyond the window, the show is happening.
Anna Jordan's play, receiving its local premiere at Raven, examines toxic masculinity in terms of maternal care and its absence.
This heartfelt musical by Steve Martin and musician Edie Brickell is a marriage of old and new.
This simple but hardly straightforward world premiere finds one woman speaking her truth with honesty and self-reflection.
Annie Dorsen's performance sparks a line of ontological inquiry about the nature of how our digital and corporeal existences dovetail begets more and more questions.
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
Miranda Davis' new piece about hope in the face of adversity is the latest in a series of commissions intended to push the company's boundaries and explore the intersections of jazz, modern …
