Dave Malloy's wondrous musical at Raven Theatre follows eight people in group therapy for internet addiction who use a cappella singing for healing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Jason Alexander directs this world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a “marital combat” play with tightly wound action that takes repeated shots at the intimate lives of its coupl…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Writers Theatre's production stars Rae Gray as a Big Tech employee undergoing an evaluation with a therapist played by Christopher Donahue.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages "The Merry Wives of Windsor," a comedy that is produced less often than others in the Bard's canon, but worth catching.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Theo Ubique turns small-scale staging into a big-hearted musical escape, where director L. Walter Stearns immerses the audience in the world of the Man in Chair's imagination.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Chicago Opera Theater is staging the opera that premiered in Germany in 1933 before being banned by the Nazi party.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Translations" is a provocative and brilliant play that stands alone as drama.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The most stirring vocal moments in the opera are delivered by the large ensemble, whose humming could scare a banshee"but leave it wanting more.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Teatro La Plaza's "Hamlet" is nearly entirely about the actors themselves, framed by the playwright's agitprop on their behalf.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Manual Cinema has taken the perilous path of adaptation, mixing a contemporary American storyline with an authentic period telling Dickens' tale. Its "Christmas Carol" brings magic, and a ma…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This cheery, sexy 2015 staging with its 2024 cast shows that bright, sexy opera still sings at Lyric. It's great fun with generous doses of the sublime.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This is a stylish, energetic production with a breathtakingly gifted crew that delivers all the energy and glamor of a vintage-style musical with a new school spin.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]In the delicate hands of director Malkia Stampley, this is a fine production of a rare play whose great wisdom and humanity unfolds slowly and curiously, like epiphanies that spring up from …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This show is a trademark Black Ensemble jukebox show"great band, many wonderful singers who give their all and a book with an uplifting message.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]As theater art, the show is a triumph. How about as a message for our age delivered by a decades-old play crafted in a different political moment?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Steppenwolf's cast has put in the work and delivers a seriously zany show.
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SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Judgment Day," now premiering at Chicago Shakes, is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud funny play with a cast that somehow ekes comedy out of nearly every line and gesture.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]In Margaret Atwood's retelling of the life of Penelope, the veiled, enigmatic, ever-weaving wife of Odysseus, is reborn.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thanks to its cast of joyous, nimble clowns"who are also the show's smart writers""Places" delights while also provoking, just enough.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The title character of the President of the United States never appears in "POTUS," a riotous political farce with an all-women cast. The comedy does, however, begin with a crisis he created.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The biggest surprise in the engrossing staged version of "Tommy" now at The Goodman is how strongly the work stands alone given the indelible imprint the music by Pete Townshend and his coll…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This show aims to portray the struggles of some of the wives (and eventually ex-wives) of Motown superstars.
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SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This British musical seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate rhythms with precision and still a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]An incisive, suitably atonal but pitch-perfect Chicago premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that leads, relentlessly, to unexpected heights of humor and drama…
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SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Big River" is a musical based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, with songs by Roger Miller. Mercury Theater's production is crisply moving, superbly sung and highly entertaining.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Get downtown and see this show. It may change you for good. It will certainly raise your standards on what to expect from a musical, including one direct from Broadway.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The playwright messes with the rituals and conventions of theater to get deep inside messy interlocking themes, including ethnicity, bias, justice, empathy and creativity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The title character of Jessica Dickey's play is also the subject of Dava Sobel's bestselling book of the same name. Sobel's book about the great scientist's brilliant, illegitimate cloistere…
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