3,926 stories from Newcity Stage
Twenty-four songs in ninety minutes, all stirringly sung, played and arranged. That's Black Ensemble Theater for you.
"Mark of Kane" offers an insider's look at the mostly uncredited talent responsible for Batman's creation. A well-crafted origin story, you do not have to be a comic book lover to enjoy this…
"Measure" is one of those bizarre Shakespearean plays that resides in the space between comedy and tragedy"something that few of the Bard's works do. Yet you will find yourself mesmerized wi…
Long-running choreographers and dance companies dominate November stages
Director Charles Askenaizer proves again that Invictus commands its small stage with strong, energetic performances and with emotionally potent productions.
The production never fails to engage the audience with incredibly vivid images of an endless and deadly land with a border no thicker than a piece of rope.
The month starts serious and ends with farce, with a bit of comedy and opera in between.
As depicted in "The Locusts," life in Vero Beach, Florida is so nasty and brutish that it almost seems a not-totally-bad thing that it's short, too, at least for the victims of the serial ki…
Emily Means Wills has a unique place in Chicago theater. She helps audience members who are blind, or have low vision, experience live theater by describing what's happening on the stage.
The season opener, which runs one night only at the Athenaeum, will feature a spectrum of works throughout the company's history.
Music Theater Works offers a version, as directed by Brianna Borger, that promises to focus on the characters, having set aside the fussy pageantry.
If you're a fan of the board game or the movie, or if you just love to belly-laugh over witty rejoinders and beautifully executed stand-up comedy, "Clue" at Mercury Theater is just the thing…
The Wisconsin here is the Dairy State, not fighting, but ruminating. What swings aren't the politics but the states of mind.
Although separated by two centuries, the great minds of the artist Frida Kahlo and scholar and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz get a chance to meet.
A charming musical that follows the interpersonal relationships of the staff of a 1930s European parfumerie from summer to winter.
This play is super-duper-ultra queer. And I'm here for it.
Carrie Hanson, along with company members Damon Green, Dee Alba and Sarah Gonsiorowski developed dances inspired by the creative practices of sculptor Edra Soto, sound artist Sadie Woods, pa…
These fables do manage to teach some important morals.
Eve L. Ewing's 2019 collection of poems deep dives into the archives of the 1919 Chicago Race Riots"the most noted moment of the country's Red Summer.
This reimagining of Noël Coward's classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.
A best-selling 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and a popular 2004 film with a cult following, "The Notebook" has finally been unveiled as a long-anticipated Broadway-bound musical.
The thought popped into my head that if there was a heaven, it could not be better than this.
"Alma" sensitively weaves together the personal and political in this tale of an immigrant single mother originally from Mexico and her rebellious U.S.-born teenage daughter.
"Elevate Chicago Dance" reboots October 13-15, spreading again across the city, with work by thirty artists presented in six venues.
Four world premieres and "Rent" " now that's a good month in theater.
