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Amanda Finn October 3, 2024. At 140 minutes with intermission, this electropop opera only captures a fragment of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”—but the juiciest bit. Comfort in Their Skins: “3320” Brings Decades of Dance Experience to Dovetail Studios Garage. Sharon Hoyer October 2, 2024. “3320,” playing October 25-November 3, will ...
Players 2023: Who Really Performs for Chicago Right Now in Theater
2023年1月6日 · 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 ...
Players 50 2024: The Producers and Places | Newcity Stage
2024年1月9日 · Christopher Chase Carter Artistic Director, Mercury Theater As artistic director of Mercury Theater and the Venus Cabaret Theater, Christopher Chase Carter was double-nominated in the director category in the Equity Jeff Awards for “Big River” and “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” Under his artistic direction, Mercury garnered a total of fifteen Jeff Award nominations, a record for the ...
Players 50 2022: The Advocates and Changemakers - Newcity Stage
2022年1月7日 · Players 50 2022 is written by Brian Hieggelke and Sharon Hoyer with additional contributions from Amanda Finn, Aaron Hunt, Carl Kozlowski, Dennis Polkow and Noel Schecter. All photos by Joe Mazza/brave lux. In the return of the Players 50 list, we tried to honor those who came back, who've already been putting shows on stages, while crossing ...
Stage Top 5: July 2022 - Newcity Stage
2022年6月24日 · 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: May 2022 - Newcity Stage
2022年5月2日 · 1 The Secretaries: A Parable (First Floor Theater) First Floor Theater returns to live production with the world premiere of company member Omer Abbas Salem’s Goodman’s Future Labs-developed project with women in Aryan drag vying to become Hitler’s personal secretary. Begins May 5. 2 Notes and Letters (Underscore Theatre) The world premiere of Annabelle Lee Revak’s musical based on ...
Stage Top 5: October 2022 - Newcity Stage
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Stage Top 5: February 2022 | Newcity Stage
2022年1月25日 · 1 Blues in the Night (Porchlight Music Theatre) Pushed back a month thanks to omicron, Tony Award nominee Felicia P. Fields headlines the Tony-nominated musical about a fateful 1930s night in a Chicago hotel on the South Side. Opens February 9. 2 When There Are Nine (PrideArts) The world premiere of Sally Deering’s dream play about the life journey of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Players 50 2022: The Music Makers - Newcity Stage
2022年1月7日 · 18 Jeannie Lukow and Michael Weber Executive Director and Artistic Director, Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre has benefitted over and over again from the expertise, talent and buckets of sweat lavished on the company by its senior staff. Michael Weber, artistic director, and Jeannie Lukow, executive director, the dynamic duo that has topped the organizational chart ...
Stage Top 5: September 2021 - Newcity Stage
2021年8月26日 · 1 Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre) Anna Deavere Smith’s solo show about the LA Riots should have a new resonance in 2021, with Jazzma Pryor playing nearly four dozen characters. Opens September 11. 2 The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, Vol. 5—Sex! (Hell in a Handbag Productions) Because we all need to laugh right now, and the comfort of the Golden Girls channeled ...