Monday, November 4, 2019
This one-man show is Lenny Bruce in his truest form, his provocations from beyond the grave like pleas for decency in an increasingly indecent world.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
While there’s no more cautionary character for our day in the Shakespearean canon, gimmicky anachronism is no substitute for theatrical vision and professionalism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMTuesday, September 17, 2019
A poignant and pertinent exploration of the pursuit of happiness.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Intelligently scripted, deftly directed, capably acted, this production is less than the sum of its well-crafted parts.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMonday, August 26, 2019
In an effort to bring its subject into the 21st century, this stylized adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 novel loses much of the original's austere power.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:41PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
"In my heart of hearts, I’ve never left. I never will leave.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 29, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Lauren Gunderson's 2015 play comes off as the awkward love child of Jane Austen and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:19AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Too affectionate to be satire and too broad to be drama, this world premiere can’t decide what it is or what, if anything, it believes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Inspired by James Joyce's "Ulysses," Steven Dietz's play is structured as a chord of simultaneity rather than a sequence of events.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMFriday, May 24, 2019
As the corpses pile up, the question arises of what exactly is irritating Ionesco: human folly or human existence itself?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:54PMMonday, May 6, 2019
While clearly aimed at an older demographic, this world premiere will appeal to people of all ages interested in the still-relevant question of how to live life with poise, class and style.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:44PMMonday, April 29, 2019
This revival of Kate Fodor's 2003 play demonstrates the evil of banality at a time when fascism is once again on the rise.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:18PMMonday, April 8, 2019
This world premiere is a modern-day vision of hell that outstrips the imaginings of Dante or Hieronymus Bosch. It's also a comedy.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Millennial mores take center stage against the backdrop of intragalactic travel in this local premiere by MJ Kaufman.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMFriday, March 8, 2019
Hardly seen stateside, this tautly silly production of Erik Satie's play is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:00PMMonday, March 4, 2019
This quixotic adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's novel is both reverent and ridiculous.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMThursday, February 21, 2019
By going with the padded Broadway version, rather than the tighter TV or movie screenplay, this production of Rod Serling's noirish melodrama delivers something less than a knockout.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Windy City Playhouse's revival of Michael Frayn’s backstage comedy is exactly what it satirizes: a soulless execution of entertainment industry mores.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMMonday, January 21, 2019
Written more than four hundred years ago, this play about collective resolve against singular authority remains urgently contemporary.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:30AMThursday, December 6, 2018
This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company provides much-needed holiday fare for families of the non-Noel persuasion.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:30PMWednesday, November 21, 2018
There's no moral message or social insight to bog down this heart-pounding holiday journey at The Royal George Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Theatre Y presents the English-language premiere of this disquieting exploration of sacrifice and parenting.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMonday, November 5, 2018
The Goodman Theatre stages the world premiere of this bland and meandering reflection on the life of an artist who was anything but.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:30PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Combining his years as an improv artist with the storytelling possibilities of radio, Nate Herman's Films for the Ears produce one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff events.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
The latest from Northlight Theatre follows a "ragtag little group of humans" through an increasingly contrived familial plot.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:15PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Black Button Eyes Productions captures the misanthropy in John Collier's stories but misses his sly take on the shadows surrounding civilized life.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMMonday, August 20, 2018
There is not enough dramatic scaffolding to support the bulk of thematic materials in this world premiere from Promethean Theatre Ensemble.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Returning to the Goodman Theatre a year after suffering a heart attack while on its stage, Stacy Keach consummates his performance of the tumultuous, iconic Ernest Hemingway in this affectin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:00PMLike the fields tilled by the victims of Holodomor, Abbey Fenbert’s new play at Red Theater Chicago needs air and space in order to properly grow.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PM 
