3,989 stories from Newcity Stage
In a world like ours so wrought with chaos and war, what happens when freedom is finally achieved? That is something that the play "The Tragedy of King Christophe" attempts to answer.
"Both [ballets] are trying to deal with a particular time: One by healing with the beauty of dance, the other by trying to create empathy for beaten-down humanity. Right now, we're facing so…
The six wives of Henry VIII all performing together in a song and dance line on one stage and competing against one another.
On stage, Toomey has a unique ability to stay present in the moment, bantering with the crowd with a sly smile
The drama takes place over a non-sequential series of Passovers, beginning in 2019 Los Angeles, as three generations of a Sephardic Jewish clan come together.
Mary Rodgers, late daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, thought "The King and I" was the best of the Rodgers and Hammerstein collaborations.
Former nun Mrs. Mary Margaret O'Brien is hosting bingo and quizzing and informing us about Easter traditions and trivia along the way.
"And you can go see on a Tuesday night a line-up of amazing comics that would be the headliner in another city."
Juli is a New-York based performance artist who uses personal aspects of her own life as fodder for her one-woman show.
The grand journey of the musical "Paradise Square" reached its culminating destination of a full-scale Broadway opening Sunday night.
"WTSUWIGD" takes on a wide range of social toxins and portrays an equally wide range of how Blacks cope and respond.
Although Chicago is where he started doing comedy as an adult, this show will be the first time he's been back on a Chicago stage since performing at Thalia Hall in 2019.
When one in four Americans are directly impacted by opioid addiction, any art we create on the subject will have a profound effect.
April highlights.
About Face's new production is full of hard-won joy. In a tense moment, the characters realize how desperately they need to feel light again.
Dance highlights for April.
Lucas Hnath's quick-talking historical drama centers on Isaac Newton's hypothesize that an experiment that requires a needle to be inserted into a living human's eye will prove his theory on…
Featuring a bravura performance by Jim Ortlieb, this show is all about getting reacquainted with the joys, stresses and sheer sensation of real life after a too-long hibernation.
"WHITE," under the direction of Ericka Ratcliff, is full of the kind of transgression that makes theater so exciting.
The show draws on the familiarity of Hans Christian Andersen's "Princess and the Pea" but with a celebration of human character and the charms of oddballs.
Chicago Repertory Ballet celebrates their anniversary with some traditional ballet mixed with a contemporary ballet aesthetic.
"Sweat" is a work of rare and necessary empathy as it portrays those who live on the brink of economic disaster.
Doug Wright's brilliant new play, "Good Night, Oscar," in its hilarious and heartbreaking world-premiere production at the Goodman Theatre, is set in 1958. It's more than twenty years since …
"Wife of a Salesman" is full of cogent points about being a woman that are just as relevant now as they were in the show's 1950s setting.
This is an enjoyable production with a good cast of show voices.