This is the original “West Side Story” as it was originally conceived in 1957, which is to say the original song order is preserved and its radical elements are left to pack a wallop.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMNick Sandys is directing the world premiere of “Shaw vs. Tunney” produced by Grippo Stage Company
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe early twentieth-century fictional Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker in E.L. Doctorow’s novel—also the centerpiece of this musical—is a powerful symbol of racial injustice. And yet i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt’s the story of a man so desperate for the Washington Senators to trounce the Yankees that he is willing to sell his soul to do it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe lampoon of missionaries that feel the need to create a cookie-cutter world in their own image still resonates.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMBritish mathematician Alan Turing, who is the father of computer science, was primarily publicly remembered for being convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts and was subject t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:06PMA jukebox musical that tells the story of Tina Turner, one of the most powerful and unique performers to take a stage.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMSharon is likely the hottest American director in opera right now. The world premiere of “Proximity: A trio of new American operas” is being dubbed Sharon’s “Lyric Opera main-stage d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMJ'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor this show, the emphasis is on Annie seeking to be loved and accepted and that template is well in place in the new touring production currently playing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“1776” took our Founding Fathers off their pedestals and revealed them as clay-footed human beings who passionately squabbled over something as fundamental as American independence. Dire…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis epic national touring production has a diverse cast that sing their heart out—even the kids. Each and every member of the cast and entire ensemble are always singing, dancing and acti…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMOperatic Baritone Will Liverman wanted to reboot Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville" to a contemporary South Side Black barbershop with himself as the barber with a hip-hop soundscape.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe setting is updated to post-World War II with hunger as the theme. Sir Andrew Davis is back for his first opera as newly-announced Music Director Emeritus.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFlashy lawyer Billy Flynn, cell matron Mama Morton, headline grabbers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly all need to grab our attention and not let go.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMChicago Opera Theater began as a handful of vocal students of company founder Alan Stone. It was formed by Stone to give his students actual performance practice and experience. Stone’s d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe forces needed for “White Christmas” are large. “There are six main characters,” says Roger Bingaman, “but there’s an ensemble of twenty-nine. There is tap dancing galore."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt's not like any other musical you are likely to see. Its clever and well-crafted songs are upbeat, life-affirming and move the action forward. The characters, however, inhabit a dark, post…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMost of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMNorthlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” spend Christmastime, 1815.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMComing in to the stage space at the Chopin Theatre this year, it feels like a retro holiday living room, complete with illuminated 1940s-style Christmas trees.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn the case of Disney’s “The Lion King,” designer/director Julie Taymor’s revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLyric Opera is performing Verdi’s longest and most complex opera.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhat happens when you present “Rent” as a standard piece of musical theater rather than the “rock opera” its late creator Jonathan Larson intended?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA best-selling 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and a popular 2004 film with a cult following, “The Notebook” has finally been unveiled as a long-anticipated Broadway-bound musical.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:04AM“Wicked” is above all, an experience, and most that have it want to repeat it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe real magic of this show are the songs by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. Terrence McNally (book), Flaherty and Ahrens are the same triptych that gave us “Ragtime,�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMHomemade soup is given to ailing neighbors. And homemade poisoned wine is given to elderly gentlemen with no families who come looking for a room.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe fiftieth anniversary tour of “Jesus Christ Superstar” takes very seriously the notion that the work belongs to the Passion genre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“It’s been really moving and important and central to all of us that at the heart of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is a young person trying to figure out how to live."
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