3,991 stories from Newcity Stage
Steppenwolf's revival of Sam Shepard's classic play is only as potent as the sum of its parts.
This Tony Award winner mines its parochial material for outstanding humor, showing these small-town residents as far more open-minded than their mostly big-city counterparts.
Nary a month goes by in our fair city without a fresh plate of premieres.
This morbid tragicomedy is unable to land its punchlines.
Dave Malloy's "staged concept album" is a smorgasbord of delectable melodies, familiar stories and eerie feelings.Â
The annual event series sets the example of how a festival can evolve alongside its art form.
The local premiere of this family drama from Hansol Jung bares its soul and its teeth.
Purportedly about a boy and a nun, Tom Dudzick's play needs more of either or less of both.
The Chicago acting studio's new owners honor the past, look to the future and remain present.
All month long Chicago is serving up hot-off-the-grill premieres featuring all your favorite fixins.
Led by Mary Zimmerman, this pitch-perfect revival is the ideal accompaniment to a summer night.
This production of Shakespeare's patriarchal anxiety dream finds truth in jest.
Lauren Gunderson's 2015 play comes off as the awkward love child of Jane Austen and Bill Nye the Science Guy.
The annual free series of dance performances in neighborhood parks makes the long-awaited fair weather all the sweeter.
Sitting on the fence between camp and cautionary tale, this rock opera unveils a world of love and lust that is more finger-to-finger than face-to-face.
We greet summer with daily outdoor dance events...and a few in the comfort of AC.
Too affectionate to be satire and too broad to be drama, this world premiere can't decide what it is or what, if anything, it believes.
Hedwig makes a triumphant return to close out the company's inaugural season in their new Evanston digs.
History has a history of repeating itself...
This new play from Steven Levenson sees the past and present as a continuum of conflict.
Michael John LaChiusa's musical could have been an empowering feminist adventure based on a true story. Instead it's a tepid moral dirge.
Co-written by ensemble members Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau, this world premiere is generous, idealistic, and irresistibly queer.
"We have no children and no relatives we trust with money, so at a certain age we were thinking about what [our] legacy is and our bequest to the future."
New York-based Brian Brooks writes a coda to his Harris Theater residency with a revisioning of his chaotic and complex "Terrain."
Inspired by James Joyce's "Ulysses," Steven Dietz's play is structured as a chord of simultaneity rather than a sequence of events.
