Tuesday, March 21, 2023
A 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 08:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Sharon 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 08:00AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
J'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, March 13, 2023
For 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 08:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
“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 08:00AMMonday, February 20, 2023
This 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 08:00AMMonday, February 6, 2023
Operatic 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 08:00AMMonday, January 30, 2023
The 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 08:00AMMonday, January 23, 2023
Flashy 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 08:00AMFriday, January 20, 2023
Chicago 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 08:00AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
The 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 08:00AMMonday, December 12, 2022
It'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 08:00AMFriday, December 9, 2022
Most of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Northlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” spend Christmastime, 1815.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 5, 2022
Coming 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 08:00AMMonday, November 21, 2022
In 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 08:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A 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 08:00AMMonday, November 14, 2022
Lyric Opera is performing Verdi’s longest and most complex opera.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, November 7, 2022
What 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 08:00AMFriday, October 7, 2022
A 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 01:04AMMonday, October 3, 2022
“Wicked” is above all, an experience, and most that have it want to repeat it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 23, 2022
The 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 08:00AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Homemade 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 08:00AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
The 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 08:00AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
“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."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 5, 2022
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
The current Music Theater Works’ production offers a rare opportunity to see the show professionally staged.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
There are over thirty songs here that include anthems, arias, dances, choruses, duets and trios. The variety is eclectic and run the gamut with a well-assembled and powerful cast and ensembl…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 20, 2022
When Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye intones the iconic line about villagers “trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune” without breaking one’s neck, our gaze takes in the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 13, 2022
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 08:00AM 
