3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
If "Lady Day" was just a concert, you would get your money's worth. But it's more than that.
A set of nine love-themed comic vignettes presented in time for Hallmark's and Fannie May's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day.
Toni Stone" by Lydia R. Diamond is about the first professional Black woman baseball player. Nothing about Stone's life is conventional.
"I want people to not be sitting there thinking 'I could have stayed home and read this book or watched this movie.' I just want people to have a good time. It always been sort of tongue in …
A young Andy Warhol hones his artistic vision while working on a tavern sign for a tough-as-nails saloon owner in this Odd Couple origin story of a fable.
Elements of magical realism elevate "Big Fish" from a rote story of father-son tension into a grandiose adventure.
Operatic Baritone Will Liverman wanted to reboot Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" to a contemporary South Side Black barbershop with himself as the barber with a hip-hop soundscape.
In this of-its-time dramedy, three intersectional women of color jump between the past and present day while tossing around quips of political humor amidst serious discussions about race.
This is an inventive and gorgeous retelling of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights."
Brent Askari places Warhol just ahead of the revolution in Iran (then Tehran) in the 1970s to get Polaroids of the Shah's wife for a portrait commission.
Whether you're looking for story ballet or experimental play, dance in February will keep you warm.
Considerations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
The setting is updated to post-World War II with hunger as the theme. Sir Andrew Davis is back for his first opera as newly-announced Music Director Emeritus.
Michael Gene Sullivan's new play is a lively reminder that those who came before are not just names to memorize in grade school. Their legacies, infamous or not, follow us in ways seen and u…
The play is about a family from the fictional town of Beacon, Kansas, whose struggles with segregation nearly tear them apart.
Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" suggests that what we think of as the habits of ordinary life are often a kind of smokescreen designed to block awareness of underlying arrangements and …
Kara Brody never intended to be a curator, but when the opportunity to hand the Steppenwolf 1700 black box theater over to dance makers of her choosing came up, she couldn't say no.
You will be dazzled by the shimmering costumes a la Bill Morey, the incredible talent of the ensemble and enamored by Angela Weber Miller's multifaceted set.
Flashy lawyer Billy Flynn, cell matron Mama Morton, headline grabbers Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly all need to grab our attention and not let go.
Chicago Opera Theater began as a handful of vocal students of company founder Alan Stone. It was formed by Stone to give his students actual performance practice and experience. Stone's dec…
The work is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its creator, Jonathan Larson, set between two major life events, the flop of his 1984 show "Superbia" and the success of his posthu…
Theatre EVOLVE presents an endearing coming of age tale set in the former Soviet Union that features music spanning the entirety of the Cold War.
The festival"the only one of its kind in the United States"is in its fifth iteration and has already put Chicago on the map as a destination for the most inventive live performance on the pl…
Like ocean waves, the moods in "Things Hidden" are ever-shifting, a kaleidoscope of ideas that remain stuck on the tip of the tongue.
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
