3,925 stories from Newcity Stage
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
This "Beauty and the Beast" at Chicago Shakes brings a lot of well-honed magic to its shortened form and is a perfect summery confection.
Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land""the Nobel Prize-winning writer's 1975 play, masterfully revived at Steppenwolf"is a rich and strange theater experience.
Great dance heats up August: North Side, South Side, West Side and Downtown.
If you're in the mood for a raunchy rock concert but want to get to bed at a decent time, then check out "Rock of Ages."
Chicago's longest-running long-form improv show features one of the city's most beloved improv stars when T.J. Jagodowski takes the stage as the guest monologist for "The Armando Diaz Experi…
In a Northwest Side warehouse, you can visit the apartment of a Mexican family, anxious because the father has been deported. Or a multi-generation Filipino family, about to cook supper. The…
Midsommer's new production, playing in Chicago parks through August 13, shows that in the right hands, "Cymbeline" is funny, compelling and surprisingly touching.
This Saturday, oft-overlooked artists take over the Chicago Cultural Center in the first DisFest, a daylong festival featuring multidisciplinary work by artists with disabilities. Thirty art…
Oak Park Festival Theatre launches its forty-eighth season with Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," staged within Oak Park's leafy Austin Gardens.
Metropolis Performing Arts breathes new life into their production of "Xanadu," directed by Kevin Wiczer, with choreography by Kristine Burdi and musical direction by Kenny McMullen.
George Brant's "Marie and Rosetta" at Northlight Theatre offers both great music and a real story. Directed by E. Faye Butler, it's about the friendship and musical collaboration between Sis…
Devon Walker's ridden a wave of success all the way to "Saturday Night Live." Walker will be bringing his comedy stylings to the stage at Zanies July 13-15.
A twenty-five-year-old anniversary is tough to achieve in a marriage, and maybe a bigger challenge in the art world. Now, Congo Square is not only continuing to produce new work, but is plan…
This three-act visual story connects traditional African dance to twentieth and twenty-first century American forms. Through the magic of editing, West African stomps give way to tap and hip…
In an underwater seascape of jewel tone colors and sparkling glass coral reefs, the residents of Bikini Bottom go about their day as usual"a school of sardines flitter around in pink 1960's …
Drury Lane Theatre continues its season with "The 39 Steps," a farcical adaptation by Patrick Barlow, based on a novel, and a subsequent Alfred Hitchcock movie.
The personal good intentions and grandiose philosophizing offered here might distract us, but they won't do much to save us.
"The Buddy Holly Story" is a heart-warming story wrapped around a rock concert that slips smoothly from song to song and compels the audience to tap their feet, clap their hands and sing alo…
Ten years ago, Alice da Cunha and Marc Frost created a small festival for theater artists whose preferred method of storytelling is beyond words. Now, Physical Theater Festival Chicago works…
The biggest surprise in the engrossing staged version of "Tommy" now at The Goodman is how strongly the work stands alone given the indelible imprint the music by Pete Townshend and his coll…
Shakespeare outdoors, or Pinter and more in the theater.
Dance abounds this summer, lots of it free and outdoors.
"Another Marriage," a play by Steppenwolf ensemble member Kate Arrington, takes on the reality of how both the birth of a child and unequal career success can affect a relationship.
"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the most consistently funny shows"maybe the funniest"I've ever seen on The Second City's stage.
