
I’ve little patience for dramas that paint scientists, mathematicians, and the like as cold, unfeeling androids. Such an empty storytelling approach is too uninspired and dishonest to …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]By Johnny Oleksinski The Broadway-bound “Kinky Boots” strutted its first public steps here in Chicago this morning. The musical, based on the quietly released 2005 British film o…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:54PM[SHARE]With Collective Theatre’s inaugural production of Katori Hall's “HooDoo Love,” the new company has brought the extraordinary playwright, at last, to Chicago. Well, it’…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]Â RECOMMENDED The unprecedented rise of E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” series could not have happened five years ago. The trilogy, which is essentially an overdrawn r…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:07PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED The provocatively titled new pornography play “Dirty,” at The Gift Theatre, is not really about porn. Onscreen smut may be the shiny outer shell of rising star Andrew…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:52PM[SHARE]An epistolary novel, a story told in letters"or “snail mail” for my millennials"is an especially gnarly beast to dramatize because of the unique romantic confidence a letter carr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Playwright August Wilson, who sadly and prematurely passed away in 2005, was a master craftsman of both character and situation. Throughout his Pittsburgh Cycle, ten plays chr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM[SHARE]The onslaught of modernized Greek tragedy Chicago has played witness to this year has consisted largely of caked-on, imposing stylistic touches, absent of purpose or urgency. To be sure, the…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan are rolling in their distinguished graves. And rolling more aggressively than ever before, thanks, in no small part, to the theaters of Chicago. A gu…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED The abbreviated length of New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson’s “Skin Tight,” being given a Chicago premiere by Cor Theatre, resonates long after the “q…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:05PM[SHARE]The character with the most dialogue in Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations" does not utter a single word"Music. Personified in TimeLine Theatre Company's Chicago premiere production by a stati…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:23PM[SHARE]The monologuist is, perhaps, the most naked of all stage performers. Whether his presentation is fictional, non-fictional or a hybrid of the two, the intrusiveness of barebones interaction w…
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