3,928 stories from Newcity Stage
"Perforated Play" tells the story of three people who find themselves impaled together on the same iron pole due to an unseen accident.
Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman's intimate Owen Theatre.
Many of our city's theatrical leaders agree that Chicago is at the forefront of defining the future of the American theater.
The "Inside/Out" showcases bring audiences into an intimate setting and allowing artists to share work "at a vulnerable juncture" in the process of creation.
"Antigone" is perhaps the oldest depiction we have of civil disobedience, focusing on the tension between the state and the individual conscience.
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
madeleine george's modern-day Greek comedy "Hurricane Diane" could not have come at a better time.
Parodic pageantry of buffoonish characters dealing in quirks, quips, double-entendres… maybe even murder.
Among other compelling reasons to see "Choir Boy" is the power and musicianship on songs sung by the young men who play the students in the choir at the Black, Christian Charles R. Drew Scho…
July dance takes place all across the city, indoors and out, on the ground and in the air.
The brilliance of this musical about the family and circle of a self-help guru manifests from so many directions that the show sweeps one magically, whimsically, sometimes tragically, in a w…
An eclectic month of performances culminates with the Broadway-bound "The Devil Wears Prada"
Though "Godspell" was first produced fifty years ago, its lessons could not be more timely. Now is the time to come together in peace and love.
The one-night-only show is part of Muntu's 50th anniversary season, which the company is commemorating with a revival of the DanceAfrica Chicago festival.
For fellow nineties nostalgia seekers, "Cruel Intentions" is one of those quintessential teen drama romps. Chock full of nineties music you will be compelled to sing along (but seriously ple…
If any working comedian has the ideal skillset to walk that fine line of finding the funny in geopolitical turmoil, it's Kondabolu.
Moore's show is set in Englewood, mostly at the fictional Black Women's Health Initiative, inspired loosely by an amalgamation of real-life events back in 2011 that she covered as a journali…
Each year, Visceral Dance Chicago invites a group of Chicago-based choreographers to create a solo for each member of the company.
We need to laugh at the peculiar social and political currents of our time, at the purely silly and absurd and at dick and vagina jokes.
"Skates," the creation of Chicago native Christine Rea (book and lyrics) and her husband Rick Briskin (music and lyrics) has its heart in the seventies, at a South Side roller rink called Wi…
The current Music Theater Works' production offers a rare opportunity to see the show professionally staged.
"Hand to God" is a deeply funny, foul-mouthed play about grief and the necessity of devils.
The Chicago-based comedian and storyteller is the creator and host of the popular weekly comedy show "Blackout Diaries" which focuses on drinking stories and "hilarious misadventures" peopl…
