3,926 stories from Newcity Stage
Paramount Theatre's eleventh anniversary Broadway Series concludes with "School of Rock," a light-hearted rock musical based on the 2003 comedy movie of the same name.
The old music is an impressive collection of folk standards. The new play is a trio of voices working their way through a familial landscape.
The five lead dancers skillfully meld precise, athletic movement"in a contemporary ballet mode"with expressive theatricality.
The title character of Jessica Dickey's play is also the subject of Dava Sobel's bestselling book of the same name. Sobel's book about the great scientist's brilliant, illegitimate cloistere…
A full and convincing portrait of a family that works against great odds to stay together and give its members the support and tough love they need.
No one does thriller or horror like A Red Orchid Theatre, truly.
Pat McGann may have started his stand-up career later than most, but he's on top now with two April 22 shows at the Chicago Theatre
The show centers around waspy, middle-class suburbanites, The Healy family, each of whom are suffering from a different existential crisis.
For Goodman's current production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," Robert Falls has adapted the classic for speed and to make the laugh lines snap so wickedly hard that they elevate t…
"I get to see gay love in a way I've yearned for most of my life and never believed I would see in a ballet context."
In the current, riveting, too-short Chicago run of this forty-two-year-old Pulitzer-winning play, the young Black infantrymen play on the best baseball team in the U.S. Army.
Hedwig Dances' sequel to Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 avant-garde ballet is fascinating, playful and downright trippy. Figures parade toward the audience like a Kandinsky come to life.
Cipha Sounds brings his New York energy to Zanies Chicago
Adapted from the 1928 satire "The Suicide" by Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman, "Dying For It" tells the story of patriotic proletariats trying to find meaning in an egalitarian, near-secul…
"A Town Called Progress," a new comedy written by Trina Kakacek and directed by Anna C. Bahow, explores a hypothetical scenario in which communism, feminism and utopianism are given an hones…
Jim Mallon spent years at Harrigan's on Halsted drinking copious pints of Guinness while pursuing a dream, to have his life's story documented in some significant way. Mallon's dream is fina…
I wanted to put what I'm into on stage. I've been very into an exploration of meditation and my own spiritually. And I'm very into disco.
What do you get when you smash together old Flash Gordon serials with intergalactic alien orgies and hidden emotional trauma? While the premise is simple, the execution is luscious and extra…
The lampoon of missionaries that feel the need to create a cookie-cutter world in their own image still resonates.
The plot concerns two couples"one lesbian, the other heterosexual"who wish to have a baby in a society where childbearing is treated as a highly regulated privilege, available only to litera…
April musicals contemplate bluegrass music, serial killers and Alanis Morissette.
April features ABT and an array of leading Chicago companies in full bloom.
For the last play he programmed as Goodman's artistic director, Falls chose a masterpiece about change and endings"Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."
"Proximity"'s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences ae…
The history of medical experimentation on Black Americans is historically one of the most diabolical acts committed. This history of inhuman treatment is explored in "How Blood Go."
