Friday, 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 03:00PMMonday, June 25, 2018
The Conspirators present a multi-level satire of just about everything in this sharp-edged and in touch production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
Performed in cramped quarters, BoHo Theatre's production of Sondheim's rarely revived musical reveals an ugliness beneath its polished, polyphonic surface.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:30PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Molly Smith Metzler's new play at Northlight Theatre explores the realities of modern motherhood.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Nell Benjamin's play at Citadel Theatre attempts to pose reactionary nostalgia as feminist provocation.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Piven Theatre Workshop and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre co-produce this place-based world premiere about Evanston's racially-charged history.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
The Artistic Home's production of Paula Vogel's Pultizer Prize-winning play is storefront theater at its very best.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMThursday, March 29, 2018
Even the formidable leads of this Northlight Theatre production cannot rescue it from Martin McDonagh's bone-deep cynicism.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:15PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Theater and art in general feed on attention and die of neglect.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:02AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
Intelligence minus sympathy and compassion equals arrogance in this Goodman Theatre production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMThursday, February 22, 2018
The Plagiarists mashup 1959 drag comedy "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into an original and subversive world premiere.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PM 
