Thursday, October 9, 2025
The new dystopian play is the kind of in-your-face, challenging theater that A Red Orchid can do so well.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
The university's American Music Theatre Project will debut the Chicago Musical Theater Writers Workshop, offering instruction and support in musical theater writing for local writers and com…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
"The Blood Countess" reveals the story of Erzsébet Bathóry, a Hungarian countess who was tried and convicted for allegedly killing hundreds of young girls.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
The top-shelf production is tightly directed and beautiful, but leaves too much space unexplored.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Goodman's new play, crammed with Chicago details, stars Jenna Fischer and Francis Guinan.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
"Ashland Avenue," the story of a Chicago television salesman, will lead off the Goodman's centennial season. The play's world premiere stars Chicago theater favorite Francis Guinan and Jenna…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
APT's new and marvelous production directed by Shana Cooper, "The Winter's Tale," shows how time and grace can heal what seems irreparable.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
A terrific night of theater"full of humor, history, strong emotion and magnificent music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
When Gavin Dillon Lawrence was visiting his hometown of Washington, D.C. more than ten years ago, he took a photo of his oldest son as he got a haircut at a Black-owned barbershop. When Lawr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
We don't know why the U.S. State Department decided that female Ethiopian acrobats were a threat to national security.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2025
If you have never seen "A Midsummer Night's Dream" or haven't seen it for a while, this is the one to see. And if you feel like you've seen it too many times"try again. APT's production is f…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
This summer Oak Park Festival Theatre is marking its fiftieth anniversary with "Twelfth Night." Peter Andersen says that Shakespeare in the park as "American as apple pie."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
"Pippin" was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies musical, "Pippin" is edgier and darker than the big 1940s musicals like…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
"Iraq, But Funny" will join "The Arabian Nights" and "Metamorphoses" at the top of the Lookingglass canon. It is not to be missed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
"Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues" is a warmhearted and funny play that celebrates both vaudeville and the possibility of friendship across cultural and generational divides.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
Lifeline's production takes on misinformation, a clueless media and the rejection of science"all worthy targets. But the death rays don't always land.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
Why American Players Theatre has managed to survive for forty-six seasons in the Wisconsin woods while fancier, more centrally located, and less mosquito-y venues have closed.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2025
"The Antiquities" is a play of big ideas about the meaning of life. It reminds us that even if humans are just a blip on the universal timeline, we had some things worth remembering. Get it …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2025
When audience members enter the Trap Door Theatre for Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo," they see a nearly naked man, sitting on a chair with his face to the wall. They learn that the man is the sc…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
Any play that takes on Berlin during the Weimar Republic era must operate in "Cabaret'"s long shadow. "Berlin," now in its world premiere at the Court Theatre, tells stories from the same pe…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
How did one group, formed by often-feuding brothers from working-class North London, have this much depth and scope? "Sunny Afternoon," a musical playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, trie…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2025
Depending on your mood and disposition, the magical ending of this play might make you roll your eyes. But I always find it moving, and more so now in a time of so much anger and bitterness.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2025
Here's some advice: Go see "Titus Andronicus" at Redtwist Theatre. It's a shocking, energetic and muscular version of Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, filled with gore, excellent stage violen…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The Oscar-winning actor stars in the marital drama opposite Ian Barford and Robert Sean Leonard at the Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Sadieh Rifai is a playwright to watch and this is a play worth seeing. A little trimming and shaping would make it better.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Elliot Esquivel plays Jeff, the graveyard-shift security officer at a drab New York apartment building. He's at the center of the action in this 2001 Kenneth Lonergan play about the difficul…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The reopening of Lookingglass this winter with "Circus Quixote" is a joyful event, and comes after a lot of soul-searching.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2025
"Fat Ham," a modern reimagining of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 and got nominated for five Tony Awards. It's set at a Southern cookout. Juicy, a young queer Black m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2024
A new adaptation by Lauren Gunderson, premiering at Northlight Theatre, avoids the sentimental piety that mars some versions by using more language from Alcott's astonishing book.
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