Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Two plays featuring seven women each and a gender-swapped Sondheim give October feminist flavor.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 1, 2023
The fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 31, 2023
Fall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 31, 2023
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 29, 2023
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the most consistently funny shows—maybe the funniest—I've ever seen on The Second City's stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 26, 2023
Friday, April 28, 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023
April musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 2, 2023
Four world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Considerations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 6, 2023
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 5, 2023
The new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
If you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, October 28, 2022
The month starts serious and ends with farce, with a bit of comedy and opera in between.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, October 6, 2022
The thought popped into my head that if there was a heaven, it could not be better than this.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Four world premieres and "Rent" — now that's a good month in theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
This season brings out bold new work by some of the city's most creative
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
Brett Neveu debuts his "unofficial sequel" to the Welles film, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Playwright James Ijames makes the case that there's more than one way to tear down a monument with his fever dream of a play about a fever dream.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 26, 2022
A vibrant month in Chicago theater with all the major stages coming back to life, almost at once.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Will Allan's "Campaigns, Inc." is an origin story of modern political mendacity, found in the 1934 governor's race between the incumbent buffoon Frank Merriam and the visionary progressive U…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 8, 2022
Early in the first act of "The Devil Wears Prada,The Musical," Andy, a frumpy self-important recent college grad, is up for a job as a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (a thinly veiled…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:47AMThursday, July 28, 2022
August stages are filled with famous people, both living and dead.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 24, 2022
An eclectic month of performances culminates with the Broadway-bound "The Devil Wears Prada"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 17, 2022
Moore's show is set in Englewood, mostly at the fictional Black Women's Health Initiative, inspired loosely by an amalgamation of real-life events back in 2011 that she covered as a journali…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, June 9, 2022
"Skates," the creation of Chicago native Christine Rea (book and lyrics) and her husband Rick Briskin (music and lyrics) has its heart in the seventies, at a South Side roller rink called Wi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 3, 2022
Thursday, May 26, 2022
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 08:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Two 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 08:00AMMonday, May 2, 2022
