3,991 stories from Newcity Stage
"I'm talking about most of the stuff that people are thinking about…"
Commercial corridor revitalization can aspire to more than shops and restaurants, and it's exciting to see an arts organization anchor a block.
The first thing you'll notice stepping into the theater at Paramount is the electricity…. It's the hum of anticipation.
Ms. Pat has lived through enough drama to fill ten lifetimes.
Live theater and opera make a comeback in a dramatic way.
Jacob Jonas the Company reached a widening web of collaborators across the globe. The result is a collection of three-to-ten minute finely tuned gems, visually arresting with gorgeous musica…
Lynch has carved out quite an impressive career, having scored a Tony nomination, a string of albums and Comedy Central specials that have marked him as one of the top musical comics of toda…
Set in 1986 in the Aburi Girls Boarding School in Ghana, five teenagers gossip and primp as they prepare for beauty pageant auditions the following day. The social hierarchy of "mean girls''…
"It felt like a black hole and I was slowly maneuvering my way inch by inch. But it allowed me to have space to learn what happened in the past. We've been here twenty-five years and it's no…
Chicago theaters throw open their doors this month. Here's what to catch indoors and out.
Journalist Eddie Arruza's hard-boiled radio drama is a well-crafted love-letter to the genre, but feels out of touch with the times.
The outdoor performance promises to make up for a year-plus of constrained and isolated living with larger-than-life pomp and spectacle.
"This is a partnership which we hope will have an indefinite future. For this house to be able to offer the city a regular diet of opera and ballet changes the feel of what the opera house r…
Dance and drama in July.
The festival is a testament to the resourcefulness and survival skills of the theater community at a tough moment.
A new show that blends surrealist poetry, improvisatory opera techniques, new music and dance.
Medina Theater Collective's inaugural production about daily life in Palestine is smart, tender, at times funny and a consistently compassionate script.
"The thought about doing something that maps the richness, the ecology of our performing arts field"and literally with the geography on the map"began to excite me."
Theater and dance performances to experience in June
"It's interesting, we started conversations before the pandemic about what it might look like to create one big festival with residents and fellows presenting together," Stephanie Pacheco, L…
Yoshinojo Fujima and puppeteers Tom Lee and Ryugyoku Nishikawa each developed separate performances based on a popular classic Kabuki scene of young heartache, focusing on what Fujima calls …
May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
The company's season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
