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…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]A full and convincing portrait of a family that works against great odds to stay together and give its members the support and tough love they need.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]For Goodman's current production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," Robert Falls has adapted the classic for speed and to make the laugh lines snap so wickedly hard that they elevate t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]In the current, riveting, too-short Chicago run of this forty-two-year-old Pulitzer-winning play, the young Black infantrymen play on the best baseball team in the U.S. Army.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Proximity"'s deeply emotionally affecting scores, a cast of universally fine vocal leads and kinetic, video-centric staging add up to jarring, hard-to-shake work that will stir audiences ae…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]What makes a tribute show work? Watch "Reasons" and learn while swaying, clapping, cheering and ultimately rising to your feet to dance and sing.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Backed by a seven-piece band, John-Mark McGaha performs in a concert filled with stories and music.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The moving production is author Mahogany L. Browne's adaptation of her verse novel. Sky, is the thoughtful, athletic, resilient character at the center of this young-adult play.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The work explores the shifting morality"most of it horrifyingly immoral"that overcomes nations, young adults and abandoned children in wartime.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Twenty-four songs in ninety minutes, all stirringly sung, played and arranged. That's Black Ensemble Theater for you.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Director Charles Askenaizer proves again that Invictus commands its small stage with strong, energetic performances and with emotionally potent productions.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The Wisconsin here is the Dairy State, not fighting, but ruminating. What swings aren't the politics but the states of mind.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Lynn Nottage sets "Clyde's," her ninety-minute, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant play, in a grimy truck stop diner somewhere near Reading, Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Fiddler's universal power emerges from how the show portrays the details that are particular to the lives of the characters.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Leonardo!" adapts two acclaimed children's books by former Sesame Street animator Mo Willems. The books and the play feature two young monsters who fail at scaring children.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The play famously takes place in a part of the city's African-American South Side where the five-person Younger family occupies a small, decaying kitchenette apartment. There, they dream of …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Shakespeare set the action in the French Kingdom of Navarre where young Ferdinand, the king, and his three student pals make their pledge.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]It tells the story of a river dolphin that emerges on land every year for three days as a nattily dressed young man.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The Rivals" has burrowed deep into the culture thanks largely to the inspired character of Mrs. Malaprop, the ignorant, but intellectually confident rich aunt who continually chooses words …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Booth, like Robert Falls, whose role she is taking at the Goodman, has shown how a strong, visionary director can keep a creative whirlwind in motion for decades. Over the last twenty-one ye…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Before the two lovers met in person, they knew each other only through letters traded during the final two harrowing years of World War II.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman's intimate Owen Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Among other compelling reasons to see "Choir Boy" is the power and musicianship on songs sung by the young men who play the students in the choir at the Black, Christian Charles R. Drew Scho…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The brilliance of this musical about the family and circle of a self-help guru manifests from so many directions that the show sweeps one magically, whimsically, sometimes tragically, in a w…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]We need to laugh at the peculiar social and political currents of our time, at the purely silly and absurd and at dick and vagina jokes.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This supersonic super sonic musical journey through The Temptations' lives and the hits catalog of this Motown megagroup is riveting fun.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Over the last seventy years, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has proved an impressively durable cultural touchstone. Playwright Aaron Sorkin retains the earlier play's many sordid elements and adds …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]She is called Afong Moy by the white men who presented her in a "museum" beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Recreational fencing is an apt metaphor for the kinds of relationships where friends unrelentingly challenge each other.
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