3,991 stories from Newcity Stage
Last month may have been black history month but the artists involved in these groundbreaking plays know that the conversations about racial injustice and the celebration of black culture re…
So much great dance in Chicago in March. Here's a few of our recommendations.
The dancers move with an impossibly subtle, inwardly-generated fluidity and power, on stages transformed into vast, timeless landscapes. Cloud Gate performances are truly as much mediations …
This adventurous new show from Actors Gymnasium showcases the developing talents of their young ensemble.
Of wonders there are many, yet the programs reveal weaknesses becoming endemic to large companies"a preference for the quick hit of the thrill rather than the slower cultivation of nuance.
The world premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Young Adult production of Philip Dawkins' play about bullying and victimhood may be about young people though it is not necessarily writte…
The premiere of Antoinette Nwandu's new comedy at Victory Gardens is no laughing matter, literally.
Lyric Opera attempts to liberate this sexist libretto.
The Plagiarists mashup 1959 drag comedy "Some Like It Hot" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" into an original and subversive world premiere.
This poorly-handled production from Saint Sebastian Players shows Coward at his most cringe-inducing.
This National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Redtwist Theatre delivers exactly what its title promises.
Mercury Theater presents the story of Gilda Radner as told by her kvetching, entitled best friend.
Vanessa Stalling directs this invigorating Chicago premiere at the Goodman about a high school girls soccer team.
Northlight Theatre completes Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy with a production that exerts more force than her script offers.
Haven Theatre's production of Brecht's first open rebuke of Nazism is an aesthetically bold, artistically ambitious, and consummately brilliant work of progressive theater.
Berlin in 1931 has never felt closer to home in Paramount Theatre's production of Kander and Ebb's classic.
Brown Paper Box Co.'s production of Stephen Karam's teen drama struggles to reach its potential.
This Norwegian moral drama at Strawdog Theatre Company finds two prodigals returning home from America. Getting Ibsen's play to cross the gulf of time and space to Chicago, however, proves a…
Steppenwolf's Chicago premiere of Clare Barron's play doesn't so much tread water as sink to the bottom of the shallow end.
The Comrades pit historical accuracy against the possibilities of progress in this Chicago premiere from Jessica Dickey.
It's all these quite big concepts of philosophy and intersectionality and identity, but it's also fun and lighthearted as well.
In producing this Howard Barker play, Red Tape raises some red flags.
Sondheim's biggest flop looks even worse in 2018 than it did in 1981.
Marriott Theatre's production of "Ragtime" is a stunning spectacle grounded in social realities.
Despite claims to the contrary, Raven Theatre's latest feels like a product of simpler times.
