3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
The spirit of art on our stages is undaunted, the quality of work unsurpassed.
The new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
Polyrhythmic percussive dance!
Now the new executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres, Ford's love of the theater shines on in a unique way.
Although performed often as a play, the ostensible equality of women to men in modern-day society justifies every recurrence.
This is a tale of Hershel of Ostropol and his battle against supernatural demons. But, it's a fun, energetic show fit for the whole family.
Manual Cinema's amalgamation of puppetry, mixed between shadow and light, is the perfect homage to this beloved Victorian ghost story.
Politicians and prostitutes collide and expect to see references to line dance, praise dance, honky-tonk high-kicking, Broadway classics (in-the-trenches) and tap dancing.
Set in a mundane suburban middle-class home in Texas, the focus is around two sisters, who are, as the title suggests, both bald, but for very different reasons.
The forces needed for "White Christmas" are large. "There are six main characters," says Roger Bingaman, "but there's an ensemble of twenty-nine. There is tap dancing galore."
It's not like any other musical you are likely to see. Its clever and well-crafted songs are upbeat, life-affirming and move the action forward. The characters, however, inhabit a dark, post…
Most of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
What makes this show a roaring good time is the high level of detail put into the characterizations of each Girl, each actor has crafted their Girl to perfection.
Black Girls Dance is a project designed to open doors for talented, hard-working, and often overlooked young women of color to pursue dance careers.
Four couples have gathered together for a weekend retreat designed to strengthen their marriages and reset their moral and spiritual compasses, under the soothing, cliché-laden guidance of …
Northlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" spend Christmastime, 1815.
Coming in to the stage space at the Chopin Theatre this year, it feels like a retro holiday living room, complete with illuminated 1940s-style Christmas trees.
Equal parts imaginative holiday magic, Dickensian gothic style, and honest-to-goodness humanity.
Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were inspiration for the two prisoners serving decade-long sentences, arrested for performing radical works to interracial audiences during Apartheid.
If you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
Dance reaches new audiences, and sometimes new heights, during the holidays.
Lookingglass Theatre's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," which first opened to glowing reviews in 2018, has become a Chicago holiday theater tradition, along with "The Christmas Carol" at the Goo…
