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Dance Top 5: November 2024. Many premieres, mix rep programs and dance series for November! There is magic in the setting for Kokandy Productions’ fine and intimate telling of Stephen Sondheim’s 1986 musical “Into the Woods”—a tale of wishes, spells and deadly danger. Remy Bumppo’s “Dear Elizabeth” is a superb example of ...
Players 50 2024: The Rising Stars and Storefront Stalwarts
Jan 9, 2024 · Gwendolyn Whiteside. Executive Artistic Director, American Blues Theater. As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talent and passion of the leaders we've profiled this year.
Players 50 2024: The Producers and Places | Newcity Stage
Jan 9, 2024 · Players 50 2024: The Music Makers. Players 50 2024: The Advocates and Changemakers. Players 50 2024: The Institutions. Players 50 2024: The Rising Stars and Storefront Stalwarts. Here are the Players from Chicago’s producers and places. Victor Alexander/Photo: Joe Mazza | brave lux. Victor Alexander.
Stage Top 5: November 2022 - Newcity Stage
Oct 28, 2022 · 1 Trouble in Mind (Timeline Theatre) Ron OJ Parsons directs the groundbreaking Alice Childress masterpiece of backstage drama and interracial dynamics. Starts November 2. 2 Melissa Villaseñor (The Den) The beloved former SNL cast-member brings her “Whoops” standup tour to town for three shows. November 4-5. 3 Don Carlos (Lyric Opera) The first full five-act staging ever at Lyric of Verdi ...
Players 2023: Who Really Performs for Chicago Right Now in Theater
Jan 6, 2023 · 46 Nancy García Loza Playwright Nancy García Loza describes herself as a pocha playwright, a Mexican American writer who draws inspiration from the wealth of stories found in Chicago’s vibrant Mexican communities. In 2022, she won the Joyce Award through the National Museum of Mexican Art, and, at nine months pregnant, flew out to New York City to accept the 2022 Lanford Wilson Award for ...
Stage Top 5: July 2022 - Newcity Stage
Jun 24, 2022 · 1 Luis Carreon, La Bestia (Chicago Magic Lounge) One of the lounge’s longest-serving table magicians gets a summer residency promising wonder and laughs alike. Begins July 6. 2 Get Out Alive (Haven) Billed as Nikki Lynette’s “multidisciplinary afrogoth musical… which features the writer and her personal journey with mental health.” Begins July 8. 3 Opera Festival of Chicago (Multiple ...
Stage Top 5: January 2024 | Newcity Stage
Jan 3, 2024 · 1 Anything Goes (Porchlight Music Theatre) A ninetieth-anniversary production of Cole Porter’s Great American Songbook-filled classic. Starts January 13. 2 Highway Patrol (Goodman Theatre) Emmy winner Dana Delany created and stars in the world premiere of this social media thriller. Starts January 20. 3 Champion (Lyric Opera) Terence Blanchard calls his first opera, based on a true story ...
Stage Top 5: February 2024 | Newcity Stage
Jan 31, 2024 · 1 Judy’s Life’s Work (Definition Theatre) Definition debuts its new Hyde Park space with a world premiere by onetime Newcity critic Loy A. Webb. Starts February 2. 2 Richard III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) Edward Hall directs his first show as Chicago Shakes’ artistic director, starring Tony Award-nominee Katy Sullivan. Starts February 2. 3 a home what howls (or the house what was ...
Stage Top 5: January 2023 - Newcity Stage
by Brian Hieggelke | January 5, 2023. BJ Jones directs a tale of the iconic artist’s 1976 trip to Tehran to paint a portrait of the empress three years before the Shah’s fall. Dame Jane Glover conducts Benjamin Britten’s comic chamber opera about a grocer’s big day.
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 …