Wednesday, April 27, 2022
This one-act opera highlights a remarkable and largely-forgotten chapter of history: Blacks fighting in the Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The six wives of Henry VIII all performing together in a song and dance line on one stage and competing against one another.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
Mary Rodgers, late daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, thought “The King and I” was the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborations.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Former nun Mrs. Mary Margaret O’Brien is hosting bingo and quizzing and informing us about Easter traditions and trivia along the way.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
The grand journey of the musical “Paradise Square” reached its culminating destination of a full-scale Broadway opening Sunday night.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 17, 2022
This is an enjoyable production with a good cast of show voices.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 15, 2022
This is a sumptuous and traditional production of “Tosca” visually with every inch of the cavernous stage filled with a three-dimensional, captivating set.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 10, 2022
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” is a multi-genre work and the first opera in the Metropolitan Opera in New York’s history written by an African-American composer, jazz trumpeter and compose…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 7, 2022
What Anaïs Mitchell has concocted is something quite remarkable.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Its diverse audience knows exactly what “Hairspray” is and savors every familiar spritz.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Much of what has been said about Sondheim seems to only scratch the surface.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 14, 2022
It's been eighty years since Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” first came sweepin’ down the plain, but this staging sweeps those plains clean and restores a sense of the innovati…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 4, 2022
The 2014 musical “Holiday Inn” offers a stage version of the 1942 film, deleting some numbers and adding other better-known Irving Berlin songs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
The kingdom where “Becoming Santa Claus” is set is far north. TThe sumptuous orchestral score is unabashed romanticism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 2, 2021
We watch Scrooge go through his familiar redemptive and restorative ritual with renewed interest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 28, 2021
A conversation with Garth Drabinsky on his new show “Paradise Square" a musical about a pre-Civil War Irish/African-American neighborhood that existed in New York prior to the 1863 Draft …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
With its carefree and sunny demeanor, “Elixir” could not be more different than Verdi’s “Macbeth,” which opened the season the week before.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
"This is a partnership which we hope will have an indefinite future. For this house to be able to offer the city a regular diet of opera and ballet changes the feel of what the opera house r…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2020
"The piece is so rich that the most important thing for me to say is 'Once Upon a Time.'"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMMonday, May 6, 2013
When Renée Fleming was announced as Lyric Opera’s creative consultant in December of 2010, she related that the company would have an “annual commitment to American musical theater” b…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:48PMMonday, April 29, 2013
RECOMMENDED There is a lot of Richard Rodgers being heard around town this spring, from the rarely heard Rodgers and Hart “Pal Joey” at Porchlight and the first-ever Rodgers and Hammerst…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:57PMMonday, April 22, 2013
RECOMMENDED One of the problems with being the new impresario in town who conducts, directs and simultaneously runs another opera company on the West Coast is catching your breath long enoug…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:42PMMonday, April 15, 2013
RECOMMENDED Heavily promoted as two words you don’t hear together very often, i.e., a “mariachi opera,” “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” [“To cross the face of the moon”] is actuall…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:38PMMonday, April 8, 2013
They come without warning, those occasional Non-Equity shows that Broadway In Chicago manages to slip into its lineup. They are usually classics or revivals popular enough to be relatively…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:28PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
By Dennis Polkow Andrew Lippa, the composer of “Big Fish,” has been very busy readying the show for its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago. “‘Big Fish’ is a joyful celebration …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMFriday, March 29, 2013
RECOMMENDED One of the great difficulties in bringing an iconic contemporary play to the opera house is securing permission from the playwright, without which, an opera is not possible. In t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:40PMMonday, March 25, 2013
RECOMMENDED The touring version of the Broadway production of the Australian jukebox musical based on the 1994 Australian film has landed at the Auditorium Theatre. The film “The Adven…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:37AMThursday, March 14, 2013
RECOMMENDED The early works of Andrew Lloyd Webber incorporated rock and pop idioms into the Broadway musical that, taken with the punchy lyrics of his early partner Tim Rice and a through-c…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PMMonday, March 4, 2013
RECOMMENDED Verdi’s “Rigoletto” is so popular and done so often that it has become a festering ground for avant-garde directorial concepts that more often than not are bizarrely superi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:30AMMonday, February 25, 2013
RECOMMENDED The Andreas Mitisek era has begun at Chicago Opera Theater. Walking across the stage on crutches with a leg cast at Saturday night’s season opening, Mitisek noted that his fall…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:46PM 
