3,988 stories from Newcity Stage
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.
A new work to kick off the new year.
Coping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
In its initial Broadway run in 2006, the show broke box-office records. It has been a seasonal phenomenon ever since.
If you're a grinch like me and cringe upon hearing the same holiday tunes year after year, then you'll appreciate this show that breathes new life into an old classic.
Laura Hall's returned to Chicago to assemble a troupe of actors called Phony Award Winning, who have an ambitious challenge: to learn classic Broadway musicals inside and out, and then impro…
The theme of budget-busting inflation is all too relevant right now in the United States. That said, it's no easy task updating and transposing Fo's almost fifty-year-old tale of the inside-…
No one compares to Jasmine Amy Rogers, who is Betty Boop, from the voice to the mannerisms to the can-do spirit tempered by vulnerability. And can she dance and sing? Yes.Â
A clever and fun musical comedy poking fun of all things orphan.
It's a sweet story, beautifully performed, about a friendship between two teenage girls. One of them is a mermaid or selkie who takes care of whales.
In 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky's most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn "Nutcr…
The Broadway-bound fiftieth-anniversary revival of "The Wiz" gets to the heart of what made "The Wiz" so special: song and dance.
