3,911 stories from Newcity Stage
Northlight Theatre's new production takes us back to the 1950s, when sitcom pioneer Gertrude Berg was tasked with an impossible choice.
Jared Goudsmit skillfully directs Richard Dresser's 1995 satirical take on organizational existence.
Three performances by Chicago artists this weekend grow joy and find ways through grief via the body, music, ritual and remembrance.
A magic mansion with major funding enters a city where the art form already flourishes.
American Blues Theater's new production is a bravely experimental dark comedy with a less-than-coherent plot.
The comedian reaches new creative heights with his one-man show "Grandiloquent," coming to the Athenaeum Center.
The season preview concert overlapped with Taste of Chicago, creating a sometimes amusing Ivesian auditory collision.
This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it's the company's seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With its t…
Deeply Rooted turns thirty, and Hubbard Street brings more Fosse. Now that's a fall season!
This experimental adaptation connects music, storytelling and ambiance to craft a truly immersive theatergoing experience.
If you want to learn about a real-life tale of communion, go see "Come From Away."
It's hard to imagine now that a tan suit was seen as a presidential scandal.
"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…
In an age when many dance-based organizations and venues struggle or have gone dark, bright spots remain. One such light in the darkness is Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble which has, as its fou…
The Second City's forty-ninth e.t.c. revue is difficult to predict, circuitous, self-referential and, at times, disorienting. It nevertheless provides reliable laughter even on nights when t…
GglassFest is for those who are looking to go beyond the finished product, to be a part of the messiness and the journey of making theater and feel that their presence matters.
How Pam Dickler ended up on a right-wing "Scoundrels List""a roster of the top two-hundred people who most influenced Barack Obama. "I'm Number 151," Dickler states with irony-inflected prid…
Fall arts season kicks off with dance and performance festivals aplenty.
Chicago's stages reach major milestones this year.
Big anniversary seasons begin this fall, along with new beginnings for some theater institutions.
APT's new and marvelous production directed by Shana Cooper, "The Winter's Tale," shows how time and grace can heal what seems irreparable.
A terrific night of theater"full of humor, history, strong emotion and magnificent music.
The ten companies comprising the Black Dance Legacy Project demonstrate that Black dance"in its wide ranging diversity of rhythms, moods, modes and aesthetics"truly is American dance.
The fascinating focus of "MJ: The Musical" is on creativity and what drives and shapes it, especially when it has a cavernous cultural response.
One of the most highly-anticipated cultural events of the summer.
