3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
The Factory Theater presents a world premiere comedy that attempts to answer the question of whether or not women can have it all.
Northlight Theatre opens their season with a well-crafted and entertaining "trashy" buddy comedy.
"Leonardo!" adapts two acclaimed children's books by former Sesame Street animator Mo Willems. The books and the play feature two young monsters who fail at scaring children.
Playwright James Ijames makes the case that there's more than one way to tear down a monument with his fever dream of a play about a fever dream.
Fall dance highlights
Homemade soup is given to ailing neighbors. And homemade poisoned wine is given to elderly gentlemen with no families who come looking for a room.
Beginning his second full-time season with Lyric, Enrique Mazzola proves once again his connection to the early operas of Verdi, shepherding Lyric's fine orchestra, mighty chorus, and a grou…
Kosky did not want a safe "Fiddler." Kosky wanted the big chorus and full orchestra that can only be provided in an opera house. "It's a shtetl. It's a world," Kosky explains. "And it makes …
Under Terry McCabe's crisp direction, this 1925 play comes saucily to life, its portrayal of showbiz self-absorption and social insensitivity as fresh and stinging as an Oscar-night slap.
"It is clear that artists need time, flexibility, process to be supported and not just the end product. I wanted to create a series that took that into account."
Babes with Blades Theatre Co., known for its use of stage combat and the casting of women in male roles, explores disability culture and "othering" in its new production of "Richard III."
Two new pieces open this week on the world's largest canvas for digital art.
The play famously takes place in a part of the city's African-American South Side where the five-person Younger family occupies a small, decaying kitchenette apartment. There, they dream of …
Shakespeare set the action in the French Kingdom of Navarre where young Ferdinand, the king, and his three student pals make their pledge.
It tells the story of a river dolphin that emerges on land every year for three days as a nattily dressed young man.
It's official: Concert dance is back. September abounds with performances by local, national and international companies.
"The Rivals" has burrowed deep into the culture thanks largely to the inspired character of Mrs. Malaprop, the ignorant, but intellectually confident rich aunt who continually chooses words …
Booth, like Robert Falls, whose role she is taking at the Goodman, has shown how a strong, visionary director can keep a creative whirlwind in motion for decades. Over the last twenty-one ye…
A vibrant month in Chicago theater with all the major stages coming back to life, almost at once.
The showcase concert by the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project marks the beginning of greater visibility and financial support for Black dance companies in Chicago.
The Black Ensemble Theater presents a celebration of the life and times of Langston Hughes.
Will Allan's "Campaigns, Inc." is an origin story of modern political mendacity, found in the 1934 governor's race between the incumbent buffoon Frank Merriam and the visionary progressive U…
Paramount Theatre stages an intimate production of the Tony award-winning musical "Fun Home."
On top of being a killer stand-up, Kilmartin is a comedian who seems comfortable in all comedic spaces, having been a late night writer for Conan for a decade.
Early in the first act of "The Devil Wears Prada,The Musical," Andy, a frumpy self-important recent college grad, is up for a job as a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (a thinly veiled…
