3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
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…
A music-infused month of theater
Rarely do you get such rich storytelling in just over ninety minutes.
There are over thirty songs here that include anthems, arias, dances, choruses, duets and trios. The variety is eclectic and run the gamut with a well-assembled and powerful cast and ensembl…
Hold on to your halter little birdie, the Fly Honeys are back!
"Lookingglass Alice" reveals the beauty in change and unexpected lessons, while acknowledging their pain.
Some of the best bits on "Black Superman" are about the trials of fatherhood.
This supersonic super sonic musical journey through The Temptations' lives and the hits catalog of this Motown megagroup is riveting fun.
A mashup of a mother's memories of crossing the border with the "Wizard of Oz" is a masterpiece in the making. "Somewhere Over the Border" reminds us that the world is full of common folks j…
Chicago dance heats up in June with high-energy rhythms and big, splashy productions.
A portrait of a fifteenth-century serial killer that you can both hate and secretly cheer for.
Over the last seventy years, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has proved an impressively durable cultural touchstone. Playwright Aaron Sorkin retains the earlier play's many sordid elements and adds …
In Chicago she'll be fine-tuning how all the material best fits together and setting her sights on splitting it all into two separate (but solid) hours.
When Israeli actor Yehezkel Lazarov as Tevye intones the iconic line about villagers "trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune" without breaking one's neck, our gaze takes in the presen…
She is called Afong Moy by the white men who presented her in a "museum" beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
