Friday, April 24, 2026
“The Great Gatsby: A New Musical” is here for a short run at Broadway in Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2026
Mangum, the Lyric's general director, president and CEO, and Mazzola, the Lyric's music director, discuss what's in store for the opera company in the year ahead.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2026
The producer discusses his Broadway career, from the tragic origins of "Rent" to the tragedy in D.C. that led to this spring's "Hamilton" production in Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Matthew Ozawa's multidimensional staging of "Butterfly" that premiered at Cincinnati Opera in 2023 is now being presented at his home company of Lyric Opera, where he is chief artistic direc…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
The Athenaeum Center's audience included priests, nuns of various orders, and even the Pope's brother for this tale of a nineteenth-century French peasant girl who claimed to have visions of…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2026
What makes "Irish" work is that no matter how sad things may get, there is always an aura of celebration in the production.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:59AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2026
Lyric's production transports the Da Ponte-Mozart opera to a 1930s seaside resort, where the colors, costumes, scenery and approach are overstated.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
Isaiah Bailey brings power, humanity and personal truth to the North American tour of "The Phantom of the Opera."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2025
Billed as "A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness," Friday night was not your typical night at the opera.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
The legendary Chicago theater maker, most known for his work at Goodman Theatre, directs a contemporary and understated version of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
Keys' songs are masterful fusions of music and poetry, performed in a breakout performance by Maya Drake.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2025
Broadway In Chicago's revival, by three-time Tony Award-winning director Jack O'Brien, is chillingly on time.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
The long journey to get Cherubini's "Medea" to Lyric Opera culminates in a spectacular production and stellar performance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
"Big White Fog," to which "A Raisin in the Sun" owes much, provides an invaluable snapshot of a community struggling with its own identity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
The season preview concert overlapped with Taste of Chicago, creating a sometimes amusing Ivesian auditory collision.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
The fascinating focus of "MJ: The Musical" is on creativity and what drives and shapes it, especially when it has a cavernous cultural response.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025
"Parade" is the best touring musical of the year so far, but the run is short. Don't let it pass you by.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
Jeanine Tesori's opera "Blue" had its much-anticipated Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere last fall. Porchlight Music Theatre performed her Tony-Award-winning "Fun Home" last winter. And now Br…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
When the inevitable happens, we are right there with each and all of them"those who make it and those who don't"powerfully caught up in the surreal reality that the vessel between you and th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
Without question, "La bohème" has been the opera most performed at Lyric Opera over my decades as a critic.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
The fifty-seven-year-old Opus One of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is getting an amazing Technicolor facelift.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2025
Some might be expecting to see given that Broadway in Chicago's signature genre is musicals, this is a non-singing "Clue: On Stage." For this new, believe it or not, national tour incarnatio…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2025
The sixtieth anniversary of the death of playwright Lorraine Hansberry is the catalyst for the first-ever Court Theatre production of "A Raisin in the Sun." The Chicago-born Hansberry was th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
One of the most satisfying aspects of the overall approach taken here is not just that everyone in the cast can sing effectively, but that they are aesthetically on the same page walking the…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
"Blue" is a powerful and moving new work deeply rooted in the continuum of operatic tradition.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
Unlike typical jukebox musicals, "A Beautiful Noise" is not an extroverted epic extravaganza, but an introverted intimate introspection.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
It is a rare and wonderful occurrence when you can hear two operas where two different composers have set the same libretto side-by-side.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2024
What distinguishes "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is not the story that is told but the way in which the story is told.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
Freud has been the general director of Lyric Opera since 2011"the titles of president and CEO were added in 2015"the first person recruited from outside of the company to run it in its seven…
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