Recreational fencing is an apt metaphor for the kinds of relationships where friends unrelentingly challenge each other.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Yasen Peyankov's translation and trimming of the script plays up the comedy, letting it flow from the Chekhovian checklist of dreadful character traits.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Melissa Ross' "The Luckiest" is a fully compelling, emotionally potent play.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Many teens will find catharsis and perhaps gothic glamor in the suffering of these teens.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]A daughter holds a bundle of secrets that she feels she must keep, but which uproot her relationship with her family.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"WTSUWIGD" takes on a wide range of social toxins and portrays an equally wide range of how Blacks cope and respond.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Lucas Hnath's quick-talking historical drama centers on Isaac Newton's hypothesize that an experiment that requires a needle to be inserted into a living human's eye will prove his theory on…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The show draws on the familiarity of Hans Christian Andersen's "Princess and the Pea" but with a celebration of human character and the charms of oddballs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]It is a fascinating exploration of lives and a friendship that ends in a tie, pretty much in the state in which it started. At the same time, it is a play about the lives of men.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The long-running, ever-changing show is a cirque du smirque that mixes song, comedy and acrobatics.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]For all the trouble "Ruined" so powerfully captures, it also gives us the human capacity for tenderness in the face of anarchy and hellish violence.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]A musically superb, deeply affecting songfest.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The story captures God's chief expectation, that people spend their lives bettering life for all on Earth.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Eight women and one man, vocal powerhouses all, move quickly from tune to tune.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Smook's singing, puppetry, voice characterization and mugging have vaudeville polish.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"The Moors," plays off the mental and physical landscapes of the work of Charlotte and Emily Bronte.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]This year's fest brings in the very best from all over the United States. Nearly all of the works are new to Chicago.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Fans of physical comedy may find it a rare treat. This is a gentle-hearted show which calls to mind the kind of physical schtick on old TV variety programs.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]When it comes to showing heart, especially in the power ballads and anthems, this show is stirring.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]"Love Actually?" shoots at the king of rom-com Christmas films and kills it.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]The show is a small miracle, surviving four decades and its corn-poney Southern-ish roots and emerging largely free of the pre-woke landmines rife in musical theater of "Pump Boys'" vintage …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]How could it not draw on our afflicted times?
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]A pastoral comedy is just what the doctor ordered to ease our way out of our recent confinement. Chicago Shakespeare Theater obliges with its bright, energetic tale of souls fleeing death an…
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