Two plays featuring seven women each and a gender-swapped Sondheim give October feminist flavor.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBig musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMShakespeare outdoors, or Pinter and more in the theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"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 08:00AMTake your pick: musical or off-center romantic comedy
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMay is for musical comedy and edgy new work.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMApril musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFour world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMConsiderations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIf you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe month starts serious and ends with farce, with a bit of comedy and opera in between.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe thought popped into my head that if there was a heaven, it could not be better than this.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFour world premieres and "Rent" — now that's a good month in theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis season brings out bold new work by some of the city's most creative
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBrett Neveu debuts his "unofficial sequel" to the Welles film, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMPlaywright 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 08:00AMA vibrant month in Chicago theater with all the major stages coming back to life, almost at once.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWill 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 08:00AMEarly 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…
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SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAn eclectic month of performances culminates with the Broadway-bound "The Devil Wears Prada"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMoore'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 08:00AM"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 08:00AMA 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…
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