3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
Love, family, and hope are the hallmarks of any great holiday season, and "The Sound of Music" has all three qualities in abundance.
Ray Cooney's 1987 British farce, offers unredeemed silliness of the slamming-door and double-take variety. More of a live-action cartoon than a play, it will appeal mainly to those who favor…
The show is everything you'd imagine for a staged version of Buddy the Elf's coming-of-age story. You can practically taste the gooey gumdrop goodness from any seat in the house, even if you…
In the case of Disney's "The Lion King," designer/director Julie Taymor's revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
The work explores the shifting morality"most of it horrifyingly immoral"that overcomes nations, young adults and abandoned children in wartime.
An original play written in the Elizabethan style…a marriage of Shakespearean tropes with a modern twist, creating something "entirely fresh, and unapologetically non-conforming."
A clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
"Trouble" is a backstage work set during the rehearsal period for a new and controversial race-themed play, written by a white man, that's set to open on Broadway.
Lyric Opera is performing Verdi's longest and most complex opera.
The show affords a fine introduction to what The Conspirators call "The Style," the group's robotically jerky, audience-facing, hyperbolic acting method that stirs together Chinese opera, Ge…
A perfectly executed production of Christopher Demos-Brown's powerful "American Son."
"It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster," said novelist Christopher Buckley. "And I've tried."
What happens when you present "Rent" as a standard piece of musical theater rather than the "rock opera" its late creator Jonathan Larson intended?
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…
