A mashup of a mother's memories of crossing the border with the "Wizard of Oz" is a masterpiece in the making. "Somewhere Over the Border" reminds us that the world is full of common folks j…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTwo Mexican American brothers who've grown up separately in the United States are together on the run, hoping to make it across the border to Mexico and escape the unfriendly confines that…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDoug Wright's brilliant new play, "Good Night, Oscar," in its hilarious and heartbreaking world-premiere production at the Goodman Theatre, is set in 1958. It's more than twenty years since …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:54AMMarch is such a robust month, we did not even have room for Hades Town, Moulin Rouge and Six at Broadway in Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:55AM"Sons of Hollywood" tells the story of little-remembered Ramon Novarro, in parallel with that of his close friend and former lover William Haines.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThough the characters in "Relentless" are educated and well-to-do, they are far from reserved in world view—their rage seethes, hidden only by the comfort of their surroundings and the dec…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn the return of the Players 50 list, we tried to honor those who came back, who've already been putting shows on stages, while crossing our fingers that those we've not heard from are just …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe Second City is back in operation with new out-of-town owners and new leadership here in Chicago. And while it might seem pretty much the same, the organization is in the midst of profoun…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTheater comes roaring back from its holiday hangover.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"8-Track: The Sounds of the '70s" is exactly what it sounds like, a fun, light musical revue that plumbs the breadth of a transformative decade in music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFamily, immigration and the American dream.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTheater and comedy highlights for December.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"Her Honor Jane Byrne," is a powerful new play written and directed by J. Nicole Brooks, which recently reopened on the Lookingglass stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt's far too early to know if this is one for the ages, but no doubt this is the most important musical of our times, drawing from American history to depict the kind of racial harmony we st…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:59PMThis is powerful, heartbreaking theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA big month in pre-Broadway and opera, plus the return of Steppenwolf and Lookingglass.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMHeidi, played with vigor in this production by Cassie Beck, is a fifteen-year-old student debating the Constitution in hopes of an American Legion scholarship.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMOverall, this particular revue feels more improv-infused than I remember in past iterations, incorporating suggestions texted in by the audience rather than shouted out as in the past.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe play is the story of shoemaker Wayland Early and his wife Della Rose, set in two times and two places: 1921 Mississippi and 1939 Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"American Mariachi" is ninety minutes of musical joy.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMore of the big theaters get back into the business of live shows in October
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFall highlights.
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