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Stories on Chicago's performing arts worlds. Lifeline Theatre’s production of “Kid Prince and Pablo” is a worthy successor to Twain’s classic story, updated for modern times and modern tastes, with universal truths that are well-worn in prose but are worth repeating.
Players 50 2025: Theater | Newcity Stage
Jan 7, 2025 · Charin Alvarez Don’t be surprised if you recognize Charin Alvarez, as her extensive career in Chicago theater and film continues to grow. Alvarez has been acting in Chicago since 1996, and it would be simpler to list the companies she hasn’t worked for. Recent credits include the plays “a home what howls (or the house that was …
Players 2025: The 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago
Jan 7, 2025 · Chicago stages have been described as petri dishes for talent development, with the city seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance. And they are that, thanks to an ethos that prioritizes bold experiments over safe choices, that understands failure as a necessary step toward success and, especially, champions community ...
Players 50 2025: Comedy | Newcity Stage
Jan 7, 2025 · The Laughing City: The 312 Comedy Festival Brings Top Comedy Stars to Chicago Chicago’s reputation for comedy has primarily been rooted in having the best improv scene on the planet. But the city has also spawned a rich stand-up history, and the first-ever 312 Comedy Festival will add to it by bringing more than twenty major shows to clubs and theaters throughout the Chicago area.
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Stage Top 5: February 2024 | Newcity Stage
Jan 31, 2024 · Dance Top 5: February 2024 February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
Stage Top 5: August 2023 - Newcity Stage
Jul 31, 2023 · 1 MJ (Broadway in Chicago) Not our MJ, but rather the late king of pop in a song-and-dance extravaganza created by director-choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and playwright Lynn Nottage. Starts August 1. 2 Today, Tonight, Soon (Theatre L’Acadie) A world premiere by Melanie Coffey promises “a mixture of Regency romance …
Stage Top 5: January 2024 | Newcity Stage
Stage Top 5: January 2023 The new year kicks off with gusto, with opera, performance and theater both local and global.
Players 50 2024: The Institutions - Newcity Stage
Jan 9, 2024 · Susan Booth, John Collins and Lewis Warrick Artistic Director, Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Goodman Theatre Goodman Theatre had a smash hit last year with “Tommy,” the highest- grossing show in its ninety-eight-year history. But the Goodman is facing the same economic headwinds as other large theaters. New artistic director Susan Booth says you can ...
Stage Top 5: October 2022 - Newcity Stage
Oct 4, 2022 · 1 1919 (Steppenwolf For Young Adults) J. Nicole Brooks adapts Eve L. Ewing’s collection of poems about “the killing of Black teenager Eugene Williams in 1919 off the segregated Chicago lakeshore—and how this tragedy reverberates today.”