3,991 stories from Newcity Stage
Structured as a series of vignettes across a range of contemporary issues, this Midwest premiere at Steep Theatre puts increasing distance between itself and its audience.
This well-intended world premiere from The New Colony feels like another in a long line of excuses for the very people it is trying to hold accountable: men.
Jen Silverman's play about the absurd world and its power dynamics burns an indelible image into the mind at Facility Theatre.
The full list of winners at the first ever ALTA Awards.
Written in the nineties and set in the fifties, the young women of Lynn Nottage's play, currently being produced at Raven Theatre, eagerly await a revolution that has still yet to materializ…
If "DDR" brings to mind not "Dance Dance Revolution" but "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", The Artistic Home's production of this Tom Stoppard play is probably for you.
The world premiere of Jen Silverman's play at Writers Theatre is a must-see for anyone who has ever considered the value of burning it all to the ground and starting again.
In this world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris attempts to redress the power imbalance between the disenfranchised and those who wield …
The Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play is an impressionistic journey through the history of a controversy.
Alexis J. Roston fully embodies the beauty and tragedy of Billie Holiday in Congo Square Theatre's reprised production.
Firebrand Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company's co-produce this stirring revival with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music Jeanine Tesori.
The collaboration between Movement Art Is, Emma Portner and Third Coast Percussion is potent, urgent and highly topical.
This month features a slate of local, regional and national premieres as well as a feminist opera celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Combining his years as an improv artist with the storytelling possibilities of radio, Nate Herman's Films for the Ears produce one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff events.
October dance runs the gamut from whimsical to profound, narrative to abstract, in styles and genres to suit every taste.
The themes in Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre center around some of the most pressing questions of our time, and the room emotionally transforms as dancers physically interpret deeply personal m…
City Lit's production of this early work by George Bernard Shaw remains brilliantly funny in our time of appalling displays of vanity and greed.
David Cale returns to the Goodman with this autobiographical story of trauma and survival.
Interrobang Theatre Project's production of Edward Albee's 2002 play is surprising only in how unsurprising it is.
Hubbard Street's Fall Series is a composite of interwoven movement styles from across the expansive mycelial web that is contemporary dance.
Ishti employs their unique blend of classical Indian dance, Indian folk and tribal dance, martial arts and contemporary Western dance to investigate what aspects of our human nature have bro…
Court Theatre continues their push to become the premiere destination for August Wilson's work.
The latest from Northlight Theatre follows a "ragtag little group of humans" through an increasingly contrived familial plot.
In recasting the story's lead, Lifeline's world premiere adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel seeks a feminist slant but misses the gender privilege at the core of the original.
The MCA's after-hours gathering served as an affirmation of our need for human connection when our social interactions and pubic debates move increasingly online.
