Tuesday, February 3, 2026
The spring program honors American choreographers; appropriate for a ballet company that made its name touring the United States while pushing the boundaries of classicism in dance. Newcity …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
The largest puppet theater festival in North America returns to warm up crowds with a vast array of artistry from around the globe, including an adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Ha…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 6, 2026
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The Chicago-centric version of the holiday classic, set the winter before the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, turns ten.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 2, 2025
“This piece is being made in the midst of deep questions with the ensemble about where do we go from here? What do we do with the coexistence of these feelings of the desire to be seen? Th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
A new evening-length holiday show by South Chicago Dance Theatre founder and director Kia S. Smith is aimed at fostering a sense of audience connection.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
The skill of the company is on full display in a stacked program of mic-drop numbers, old and new.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Wade Schaaf's spinoff of "Romeo and Juliet" follows Lord and Lady Capulet, carrying on clandestine affairs of their own.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 28, 2025
In a rare Harris Theater appearance, the Joffrey Ballet presents new works by two extraordinary women choreographers: a Chicago-set love story by Chanel DaSilva and a tribute to Frida Kahlo …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 30, 2025
"Starting a company of all women is not just about dance. It’s about sisterhood. It’s about community."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Liam Scarlett’s adaptation of the Georges Bizet opera feels timeless in the vein of Hollywood’s golden era.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 16, 2025
Three performances by Chicago artists this weekend grow joy and find ways through grief via the body, music, ritual and remembrance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it’s the company’s seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 9, 2025
Deeply Rooted turns thirty, and Hubbard Street brings more Fosse. Now that's a fall season!
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 2, 2025
In an age when many dance-based organizations and venues struggle or have gone dark, bright spots remain. One such light in the darkness is Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble which has, as its fou…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 26, 2025
Fall arts season kicks off with dance and performance festivals aplenty.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
The ten companies comprising the Black Dance Legacy Project demonstrate that Black dance—in its wide ranging diversity of rhythms, moods, modes and aesthetics—truly is American dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Showcase performances and free community events celebrate the abundance of great dance in Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, July 15, 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The Seldoms remount their hyper-saturated celebration of nature's beauty at a garden in full bloom.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
It's beautiful out! Put that phone down, go outside and see some dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 17, 2025
“A Gallery of Dances” comprises short pieces and excerpts from Mariah Eastman dating back to her early work as a freelance choreographer, along with new short pieces commissioned from Ma…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Few ballet artists reach the pop status of household name. But if such a celebrity exists in our century it would be Christopher Wheeldon, one of the most sought-after choreographers in ball…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 2, 2025
"It’s a continual practice that benefits myself and those around me, and it’s rooted in love.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
For those in Chicago’s dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds—pretty much any theater of the non-kitchen-sink variety—the name Links H…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 27, 2025
June brings many premieres, including the U.S. debut of Christopher Wheeldon's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" at Joffrey.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
This year, Trinity Irish Dance Company celebrates thirty-five years as the world's only Irish dance organization committed to artistic exploration and expansion of the form. I spoke with Tri…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
As the season nears its annual summer pause, an all-star lineup of choreographers and companies take the stage in May.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Ten years ago, Vershawn Sanders-Ward created a piece about the pernicious nature of racial bigotry in America for her then young company. Now, for Red Clay's sixteenth season, Sanders-Ward i…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
