4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
In its attempt to break the mold, this world premiere leaves a lot on the table.
Millennial mores take center stage against the backdrop of intragalactic travel in this local premiere by MJ Kaufman.
Ginger Krebs' new hourlong performance shows us a game in which the current winner is the moneyed, narrative-owning powers that be, but the underdog team, though skittish and sustaining dama…
This heartfelt new musical feels like the first signs of spring: hopeful and encouraging.
With a third local production in as many years, this Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical is showing its age.
This breathless Midwest premiere written by Greg Keller and directed by Wardell Julius Clark is a definitive work from the ascendant theater company.
Hardly seen stateside, this tautly silly production of Erik Satie's play is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
Directed by Jessica Fisch, this regional premiere evinces just how starved the theater world is for fat-positive representation.
The latest from Steppenwolf's educational arm is among the most unflinching and edifying works the company has produced in recent years.
This world premiere is indeed memorable though perhaps not for the reasons its creative team intended.
The iconic company celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with three unique programs featuring classic works and world premieres.
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
This quixotic adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's novel is both reverent and ridiculous.
A conversation with the ascendant music director of Thompson Street Opera Company.
This biennial festival celebrates dancemakers whose work is grounded in African and African Diasporic forms and provides presentation and professional development opportunities for this hist…
Epic titles follow ambitious work in this month's selection of theater openings.
Oscar Wilde gets a punk rock treatment in this remount of Promethean Theatre Ensemble's 2016 production of Moisés Kaufman's play.
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
This world premiere from Rebecca Gilman traces the borders and barriers of class in small town America.
English National Ballet returns to Chicago for the first time in over thirty years with a real stunner.
Akram Khan's highly collaborative and unorthodox reimagining of the classic ballet has yielded a modern masterpiece.
One of the premier directors of August Wilson's work, Ron OJ Parson guides this ensemble of large personalities through the narrow gate of the sublime.
This world premiere from Dan Giles brings home the bacon of laughs but leaves audiences hungry for the meat of its subject matter.
By going with the padded Broadway version, rather than the tighter TV or movie screenplay, this production of Rod Serling's noirish melodrama delivers something less than a knockout.
