Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 2, 2024
Lots of family-friendly fare for December, and that's not even including the million or so Christmas plays.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 4, 2024
Lots of singing along in November, but also profound sorrow. It sounds like an election month.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Start the month with a monstrously huge star of Broadway, end the month with a monster story.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 6, 2024
We're finally getting to see a couple productions postponed during the pandemic, plus an ever-expanding Destinos festival.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, August 29, 2024
The big guns of theater and opera are all out this September.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, August 2, 2024
August is a great month for some light theatrical entertainment. Like, um, King Lear.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 28, 2024
From Hedwig to Hobbits, July is a British Invasion in theater.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 31, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
May starts off with a big-budget pre-Broadway show and ends with a shoestring-budget fringe festival.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 29, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Classics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
February is a month of debuts—new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2024
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
It's an especially star-studded January on and off Chicago stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 8, 2023
No one compares to Jasmine Amy Rogers, who is Betty Boop, from the voice to the mannerisms to the can-do spirit tempered by vulnerability. And can she dance and sing? Yes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:32PMFriday, December 1, 2023
Here's five shows with nary a, um, Shrek of Christmas in them. If you want a holiday show, you know where to find it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
A lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMSaturday, October 14, 2023
Louis Armstrong completely filled the world he lived in. He was a one-of-a-kind singer and trumpet player. But it was his life as a cultural star, whose story tracks big movements of the twe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:40PMTuesday, 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 08:00AM 
