3,924 stories from Newcity Stage
The social media world is a "cool" place (in Marshall McLuhan's term)"you have to fill in the details. The story might work better in a cooler medium, like television.
"Flood" by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, presented by Shattered Globe Theatre, imagines an extinction-level event out of the Book of Genesis occurring in modern times.
"The Best Damn Thing" is a semi-autobiographical retrospective on pop singer Avril Lavigne, developed in a show-within-a-show format told through the lens of two high school age women, Ellie…
February is a month of debuts"new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
In its Chicago premiere, "Champion" has strong vocal performances, exuberant dancing and a creative, multi-level set by Allen Moyer, which uses projected images of real newspaper headlines a…
What if the rain never stopped? Where do you go when the world tries to drown you?
Deanna Ortiz is one highly ambitious and in-demand comic.
Ponnelle's mounting remains a near-ideal take on the piece, and his whimsical grey-stone settings and eye-catching costumes emit as much fairytale dazzle as ever.
"This is one of the finest productions of a Brecht play I've seen in Chicago, or anywhere else for that matter."
Steppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presente…
The actors are telling a story that never finds its way, and leaves too many unanswered questions.
It's January in Chicago, and we must somehow survive it. You could go to Miami, but not everyone has the time. So here's a closer source of heat"a dynamite production of "Anything Goes" at P…
Eclectic is an overused word. But in the case of trumpeter, pianist and composer Terence Blanchard who rose to the top of the jazz world, has composed scores for more than fifty films and mo…
Both the poetry and the genre-defying nature of "Illinoise" made it a favorite of Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck. Peck worked with longtime friend and collaborator Stevens to c…
For the past seven years, Chicago's funniest women have been revealing their most outrageous moments in the popular "Ladylike" showcase, which currently runs monthly at the Lincoln Lodge.
"The puppet is a harbinger coming from a non-human world. It's like a species that arrives porously through myth and imagination and is like an apparition that becomes present. It speaks and…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
I see Saints at most of the shows I attend, and like mustard on a hot dog, it doesn't feel like a Chicago show without them.
It's an especially star-studded January on and off Chicago stages.
