3,991 stories from Newcity Stage
Looking forward to look back. Also: looking forward to look forward. Just another month o' plenty here in the windy city.
The real poison at work here isn't strychnine or hemlock, it's a dreary self-seriousness that leaches the play of any hint of wit, humor and humanity.
The secret of this new musical's success is its strong female leads and an impressive catalog of songs.
Brandon Thomas' 1892 farce is even better seen than remembered.
Big trauma and small aggregate coalesce in Will Arbery's haunting and haunted play.
Things go to pieces in this production of Shakespeare's bloodiest play.
"There is great long-term satisfaction in building something larger than yourself."
Director Richard Jones projects psychological depth onto Tchaikovsky's opera to such shocking effect that it must be seen to be conceived.
Time to cry...
Hardly seen in the past fifty years, the enterprising thespians at TATL offer a timely revival of this biting one-act satire by comic genius Elaine May.
Windy City Playhouse continues its streak of emotionally engaging immersive theater with Mart Crowley's groundbreaking 1968 play.
Youth culture is at the heart of Peck's ballet, which is danced in sneakers and streetwear to the second half of electronic musician Dan Deacon's "America" album.
Technologically adventurous and emotionally empathetic, the local premiere of Christina Telesca Gorman's play connects even as it diagnoses distance.
Occupied with playing devil's advocate and presenting an exciting display, the local premiere of Lisa Loomer's play loses poignancy and narrative consistency.
The site-specific company returns for a production that is aesthetically radical though politically opaque.
Lyric's production of "Madama Butterfly" is fashioned to invite discussion rather than uninformed permissiveness
Underneath the well-wrought exterior of this gratuitously convoluted, neo-noir drama is a conspicuous absence of heart, soul and meaning.
Beth Steel's play is itself a labyrinth of occasionally confounding design.
Liliana Padilla's play speaks to the current climate without just quoting headlines and allows us to escape into another world without neglecting our own.
Ballet, Irish Dance, Modern, Contemporary, Tap: five more reasons to get out of the house this February.
Directed by Wardell Julius Clark, Kevin Artigue's play speaks truth to power in an age when power rarely speaks the truth.
IF you plan to see this musical THEN you might want to prepare for a nonsensical (and misogynistic) vision of so-called female empowerment.
Mara Nelson-Greenberg's play sneaks in themes of emotional manipulation, micro-aggression and male privilege to an audience that's busy laughing.
An evening of toe-tapping bliss that delivers a commendation worthy of the Duke's talent.
Netherlands-based ieke Trinks sent an international call to respond to Joseph Ravens' collection. Their responses open DFBRL8R's tenth anniversary season.
