4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
BoHo Theatre's production of Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play makes the transition from paper to performance with excessive fuss.
Mia Chung's new play at Sideshow Theatre Company is an inventive and imaginative contrast of totalitarian nightmare and democratic indulgence.
This local premiere at First Floor Theater? is a poetic day-in-the-life of a young man searching for meaning in his family history.
About Face Theatre's latest is a heartfelt and hilarious exploration of queer history.
Lyric Opera's newest production must have made a deal with the devil because it truly has it all.
Fernandes's show, an installation and performance project in collaboration with design firm Norman Kelley and the Joffrey Ballet Academy is a quietly elegant look at the pleasure of pain in …
Playwright Kevin Douglas' followup to "Thaddeus and Slocum" at Lookingglass Theatre Company capitulates to the very audience it could be reaching in this comedy about America's heritage of r…
"Formosa" hovers between pure dance and historical exegesis, with movements that are pedestrian and formal and images that are deictic and metaphorical, …by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Tai…
Lyric Opera's new co-production of "Faust" with Portland Opera brings together designers from a wide array of backgrounds to capture the strange magic of this timeless tale.
Last month may have been black history month but the artists involved in these groundbreaking plays know that the conversations about racial injustice and the celebration of black culture re…
So much great dance in Chicago in March. Here's a few of our recommendations.
The dancers move with an impossibly subtle, inwardly-generated fluidity and power, on stages transformed into vast, timeless landscapes. Cloud Gate performances are truly as much mediations …
This adventurous new show from Actors Gymnasium showcases the developing talents of their young ensemble.
Of wonders there are many, yet the programs reveal weaknesses becoming endemic to large companies"a preference for the quick hit of the thrill rather than the slower cultivation of nuance.
The world premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Young Adult production of Philip Dawkins' play about bullying and victimhood may be about young people though it is not necessarily writte…
The premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's new comedy at Victory Gardens is no laughing matter, literally.
Lyric Opera attempts to liberate this sexist libretto.
The Plagiarists mashup 1959 drag comedy "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into an original and subversive world premiere.
This poorly-handled production from Saint Sebastian Players shows Coward at his most cringe-inducing.
This National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Redtwist Theatre delivers exactly what its title promises.
Mercury Theater presents the story of Gilda Radner as told by her kvetching, entitled best friend.
Vanessa Stalling directs this invigorating Chicago premiere at the Goodman about a high school girls soccer team.
Northlight Theatre completes Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy with a production that exerts more force than her script offers.
Haven Theatre's production of Brecht's first open rebuke of Nazism is an aesthetically bold, artistically ambitious, and consummately brilliant work of progressive theater.
Berlin in 1931 has never felt closer to home in Paramount Theatre's production of Kander and Ebb's classic.
