3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
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."
Yo was one of the earliest survivors of COVID, and the experience made him stronger than ever.
British mathematician Alan Turing, who is the father of computer science, was primarily publicly remembered for being convicted of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts and was subject to ch…
The Neo-Futurists transform the theater into a corporate board room, with Windows98-style PowerPoint presentations, frantic focus groups and an overall eerie ambience. Four corporate shills …
There's nothing "nice" about "Threepenny," a no-holds-barred assault on every aspect of bourgeois existence, from religion to marriage and family to the military to law and order.
"What would it feel like if we did this every day, working with your best friend, laughing and having fun and seeing it as a joy?"
We are reminded, subtly, that we too are made up of the stuff of those who have loved us. Whether we like it or not there are characteristics and tendencies we each carry within ourselves ta…
A jukebox musical that tells the story of Tina Turner, one of the most powerful and unique performers to take a stage.
One of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, "The Comedy of Errors" is sublimely ridiculous.
There are lies told for art and lies told for power. In art, a lie (known as a story), can show what's true. In politics, lies oppress. This play reveals hard truths about fascism's destruct…
Music Theater Works' production of "Avenue Q" is delightful.
Sharon is likely the hottest American director in opera right now. The world premiere of "Proximity: A trio of new American operas" is being dubbed Sharon's "Lyric Opera main-stage debut" an…
This Saturday, Sleeping Village will become a petri dish for the femme and queer-led performance extravaganza the Fly Honey Show. In the lab will be three mad geniuses of party chemistry.
