3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
J'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
For this show, the emphasis is on Annie seeking to be loved and accepted and that template is well in place in the new touring production currently playing.
What makes a tribute show work? Watch "Reasons" and learn while swaying, clapping, cheering and ultimately rising to your feet to dance and sing.
Flannery will be one of six comics taking the stage for the "Shamrock Shenanigans" show at the Den Theatre, as part of a lineup of Irish comics detailing their unique life experiences as par…
Backed by a seven-piece band, John-Mark McGaha performs in a concert filled with stories and music.
The ten companies in the new edition of the CBDLP will perform March 25 and 26 in a program entitled "Sans Pareil," celebrating the past and the present of the city.
The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968.
"1776" took our Founding Fathers off their pedestals and revealed them as clay-footed human beings who passionately squabbled over something as fundamental as American independence. Director…
British writer Simon Stephens' 2015 two-hander references physicist Werner Heisenberg's 1927 discovery that it is impossible for an observer to precisely discern both the position and veloci…
Four world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
Fantasy landscapes are great to build a show around, but sometimes it seems even more fantastical when theater so acutely captures real life"and real emotions.
Hubbard Street Dance, Alvin Ailey and much more pack March's dance calendar.
Fighting a revolution looks like glorious fun from the outside. On the inside, you see friends die and family members suffer.
In Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 play, cigars symbolize all kinds of things, from capitalist commodity to an older, slower lifestyle to religious burnt offering, like smoke through …
The moving production is author Mahogany L. Browne's adaptation of her verse novel. Sky, is the thoughtful, athletic, resilient character at the center of this young-adult play.
"Fen," a revival of a 1983 Caryl Churchhill play, is about women in the rural lowlands of England. But the distant setting in a somewhat distant time doesn't matter, because the conflicts ar…
"Villette" is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte's final novel.
"Gone with the Wind"'s Hattie McDaniel's artistry and life were complicated, much like history. That's why TimeLine's production suits them so well. We get to imagine what things were like f…
This epic national touring production has a diverse cast that sing their heart out"even the kids. Each and every member of the cast and entire ensemble are always singing, dancing and acting…
Joffrey Ballet's magnificent revival, an adaptation of Tolstoy's vast novel of illicit love among the nobility of Czarist Russia, captures the book's tragic, inexorable power.
"Right To Be Forgotten" by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Sarah Gitenstein, explores the double-edged sword of liberalism. Where do we draw the line between what can and cannot be said?
In Lucas Hnath's play "The Christians," the popular pastor of a megachurch tries something truly difficult.
The story centers around Phillip taking, not finding, for himself a comely wife.
"When I saw the finished piece, I texted Tre and was like 'are you trying to kill my dancers?'" Yonally says. "It's six minutes of athletic, virtuosic go go go, and it's in five. A not-parti…
A ruminative mashup of classic fairytales reimagined by James Lapine and the late Stephen Sondheim.
